Sweet Like a ????

Today we read Michael Ondaatje's poem "Sweet Like a Crow." The students really gained an understanding of comparison/simile and were very excited about the surprising and strange associations this poem offered. The students then began to imagine how a voice might sound and came up with comparison's of their own. They had many surprising images!


Ms. Cole 6th grade


Your Voice
Kenya W.

Your voice sounds like eight dogs
barking, thunder in the sky,
a bullet hit you in eye,
one hundred owls in tree,
a tornado heading our way, two
thousand firecrackers hitting
the y sky, people dancing in a parade,
a burning house, a scary movie, a car
out of gas, a bulldozer
knocking down a building, a phone
ringing, a girl lost in a desert
crying for help, five girls jumping
on a bed.



Your Voice
Keegan O.

Your voice sounds like a high-pitched
bird in a nest on a summer morning. Your
voice is like a slave being beaten. Your
voice sounds like a windshield wiper,
wiping snow off of the windows, your
voice sounds like a hurricane
in the sky picking up speed.




Voices
Damyiss M.

Somebody’s voice sounds like
it is on a cloud, it sounds like
a snake being fed to a killer whale,
it sounds like a squirrel being eaten
by a giant crow, it sound like a
little girl screaming for help it
sounds like someone being shot, it
sounds like someone in a blizzard,
it sounds like someone biting
into a fried green tomato, it
sounds like a girl being beat,
her hair getting combed.



Ms. Harris 6th grade


Your Voice
Marquis S.

Your voice sounds like a
bed squeaking, like a horse
eating hay, like a car
riding on a flat tire,
like a boy knocking over
garbage cans, like a car
rolling over, like a baby crying,
like someone biting a piece
off an apple.



Your Voice Sounds Like
Edward S.

Your voice sound like
a fish getting cooked.
Your voice sounds like
a monkey jumping up
and down. Your voice
sounds like a cat crying.
Your voice sounds
like a dog biting. Your
voice sounds like a
fat man eating.




Her Voice
Carisma F.

Her voice sounds like a piece of fried chicken
being eaten, a tornado being brought threw
town, like a chip bag being opened, like a bitten
apple. Her voice sounds like a bird being
choked, like a basketball being bounced, like
hail coming down and hitting the windows.

Her voice sounds like a loud TV. Like a ring
tone on a phone, like two cats and two dogs
fighting. Like a gun being shot in the air,
like a bird flying in the sky. Her voice
sounds like a rooster early in the morning,
like an ambulance, like kids running
through the halls of the school.




Your Voice
Laquesha B.

Your voice sounds like a
watermelon when someone is
throwing and dropping it. Your voice
sounds like a laughing dog that
is at a talent show. Your voice sounds like
a notebook when someone opens it and flips
the pages. Your voice sound like a
big bag of chips when someone drops it
and another person steps on it. Your voice
sounds like a paper wobbling front and back
and from side to side. Your voice sounds
like a piece of pie when somebody ate the
whole thing in one bite. Your voice
sounds like a Mama hollering and telling
her children to go to bed. Your voice sounds like
a lawnmower getting stuck between houses. Your voice
sounds like two dogs and cats fighting each other.




Voice
Arrion L.

I sound like a hand clap
going across someone’s face.
I sound like a rock falling
onto the ground. I sound like
a man running from
the police. I sound like a
dog trying to get a ball.



Ms. Kessinger 6th grade


Your Voice
Eric W.

Your voice sound like trees falling and the leaves falling off
and blowing sometimes like in the Windy City
and water hitting rock. Your voice sounds like a coat zipper
that is broken. Like someone getting married.



Your Voice
Dominique B.

Your voice sounds like a
lawn mower cutting grass.

Your voice sounds like a
clock going tic-toc.

Your voice sounds like a
whale eating a fish.

Your voice sounds like a
dog running from a bath.

Your voice sounds like a
hyena scaring a baby lion.

Your voice sounds like a
daddy lion roaring.

Your voice sounds like a
1-year-old saying his ABCs.

Your voice sounds like a
dice rolling on the board.

Your voice sounds like a
sick kid.





Your Voice Sounds Like
Amia R.

Your voice sounds like
a pig screaming for
help and a rain storm.

Your voice sounds like
an elephant blowing
his horn going crazy.

Your voice sounds like
a dolphin crying
for her baby.

Your voice sounds like
a clock saying
tick tock.

Your voice sounds like
a frog trying to sing.