As part of our English unit on Sci-Fi stories, we were inspired to create character descriptions of our own aliens. The class used creativity to think of metaphors, expanded noun phrases and similes to describe their aliens.
We first read a character description from our class novel Space Oddity by Christopher Edge.
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Then we used our ideas to write up our descriptions.
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What is a metaphor?
What was your favourite expanded noun phrase that you used?
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