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Our class will describe the Verrazano Bridge which is located in the Lower NY bay. When you enter the fantastic harbor of New York, this is the first bridge that you will see. It is also one of New York's newest bridges. It connects Brooklyn, which is our home borough to Staten Island. New York City is comprised of 5 boroughs. They are Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and the Bronx.
We have compiled a list of words of what we observed while viewing the Verrazano Bridge.Nouns:
cables,ropes,cars,trucks,signs,billboards,light poles,steel, wires, metal, cement, paint, foundation footings,stones, rocks, bolts.Adjectives:
long,huge,massive,lots of open spaces,enormous,wide,tall,thick cables,dull pale blue gray,stiff.
Verbs:
riding, driving,running,jumping,(birds)flying,honking, walking,birds eating, eating,drinking.Adverbs:
swiftly,loudly,gracefully,fast,slowly,quietly,noisely,nicely,forcefully.Similes and Metaphors:
as stiff as a statue;
as blue as the ocean;
as green as the grass;
as long as 100 giraffe necks
put toghether;
as tall as the statue of liberty;
it`s a giant;
as green as peas;
as big /high as a mountain;
as high as the Empire state building;
as rigid as a statue.Sounds:
cars and trucks,helicopters,horns,engines,airplanes,squacing of birds,seaguls,waves crashing, tires screeching, rumbling of trucks, voices.Smells:
gas, dry grass,ocean,paint,rubber.
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