ANZAC Button

WALT: Summarise the author's purpose

SC: Complete the timeline showing how you felt through the narrative

The Anzac Button by Judy Raymond. Illustrated by Elspeth Alix Batt.

1. Why do you think the jacket and buttons were left in the cupboard for a year at a time? Explain your answer with as much detail as possible.

2. Key Vocabulary find and complete these words from the text. Then write the definition (meaning) of each word in your own words (do NOT copy straight from the dictionary)

1. khaki-Is a greenish brownish colour on shoes and jackets
2. pride-Jack had pride to go up and talk
3. dodged-Me and my friend was playing dodgeball
4. battlefield-the people in war were fighting on a battlefield
5. trench-people in the war hide in a trench
6. mildew-Mildew live in stuff behind and it gets rotten
7. pre-dawn-pre dawn is also a word for night
8. wail-Wail is a high pitched for cry
9. bugle-bugle is like a trumpet
10. regiment-regiment is a group of soldiers
11. rummage-Rummaged is a untidy search  
12. gleamed-Gleamed is making everything tide

3. Create a timeline to show how the button felt throughout the story.

Time	During the war	Parade	Wardrobe…	Ot of the cupboard	catch the jacket out	the button save himself	girl made necklaces out of button	girl wear niceness to pride
Feeling	happy	sad	scared	worried	mad	glade	happy	proud

4. What was the author’s purpose in writing this narrative from the button’s perspective? The writer wrote this story because he wanted to see how the write explains the button

I learned how the button felt in the story and i found difficult was to write the answer and look for it in the story.

5. Imagine you are a basketball. Use personification to describe how you (the basketball) feels after a game.if I was a basketball it would be cool but sometimes I would be not happy because I would be disey

and feel a little sike.

ANZAC Poetry

WALT: Make conclusions about how characters are feeling throughout the text.

SC: Complete a timeline showing grandpa’s feelings with the addition of pictures.

Grandpa,What did you do in the war? Poem by Jeff Cook

The writer has written the poem about remembering his time in the war.

The poem has 9 verses. A verse is like a paragraph but used in poetry and lyrics.

Answer with full sentences

eg. Who is your teacher in Room 7?

Correct: Mrs Parker is my teacher in Room 7

Wrong: Mrs Parker

1. In verses 2-4 how does the poem make you feel?  The bad memories in verse 2-4 made feel scared and sad.
2. In verses 6-8 how does the poem make you feel? The good memories 6-8 made me feel happy when he told the grandson good things about the war.
3. Why do you think Grandpa decided NOT To tell his grandson the first things that came into his memory? Because he didn't want him to be afraid of anything.
4. Make a timeline for each verse of the poem to show how grandpa is feeling. Add an image for each verse also. The first one has been done for you

Verse 1	Verse 2	Verse 3	Verse 4	Verse 5
Exhausted	grandpa was scared when the boy ask the question about his war days.	Bring back bad memories in war	scared	Don’t know what to tell the boy

Verse 6	Verse 7	Verse 8	Verse 9
cuddle the child with concern	Grandpa talks about the good memories of the war	Coming home to his family	grandson is not scared

I learned to know how the character was feeling. It was difficult to find pictures and paste them. It was hard but I enjoyed it.