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Abstract
The focus of this lesson is the identification and definition of
literary devices and understanding how they bring the story to life
for the reader. The students will be writing original samples of
literary devices.
Lesson fundamental understandings:
Essential
Questions: a. Literary devices are used to bring a
story to life (i.e. simile, metaphor, personfication)
b. A simile
is a comparison using like or as.
c. A metaphor is comparison of
two unlike things (i.e. Juliet is the sun) without the use of like
or as.
d. Personification is the humanizing of a non-human
object.
e. A literal telling of a story is the telling of events
without the use of literary devices and descriptive language.
f.
In contrast, a creative telling of a story would include literary
devices and descriptive language.
g. Creative telling of a story
makes it more memoriable.
Standards
National Standards Students employ a
wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing
process elements appropriately to communicate with different
audiences for a variety of purposes.
State Standards 3.5.5 Locate and
interpret figurative language, including simile, metaphor, and
personification in text.
Lesson
Prerequisite Skills
Students will have been introduced to simile, metaphor,
personification. The understanding of these devices will be
reinforced as the student learns to use them to enhance the readers'
enjoyment of their original stories.
Teacher
Information/Situations/Setting/Time Time Frame: 1-2 50
minute class periods
Materials/Resources: Pencil, paper
Poetry samples and other forms of literature using simile,
metaphor and personification
Story created from previous
lesson(s)
Suggested Poetry & Literature
Samples:
Simile - The collective poetry of Langston
Hughes
Metaphor - "I Know Why a Cage Bird Sings" By Maya Angalu
Personification - Trees & Other Poems & Candles That
Burn by Joyce Kilmer
Descriptive Language - "Stopping By Woods
on Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
Assessment
Assess English journals for at least 2 examples each of simile,
metaphor, and personification. Students will share them with the
whole class and the teacher will check the journals for completeness
and accuracy.
Student Activity/Tasks Day One
1.
Using samples of poetry and other literature, the students will find
literary devices: simile and metaphor
2. Students define each
device, and cite examples from previous lesson's stories.
3.
Students will define simile and metaphor and list examples of each
in their English journal.
4. Students will divide into their
small group and create original examples of simile and
metaphor.
5. Each group will present one example of each literary
device.
Day Two
1. Using samples of poetry and other
literature, the students will find the literary device,
personification
2. Students define personification and cite
examples from previous lesson's stories.
3. Students will list
examples of each in their English journal.
4. Students will
divide into their small group and create original examples of
personification.
5. Each group will present an example of
personification.
Enrichment/Alternate Activity:
Students will draw a picture of one literary device sample.
Cross-Curricular:
Reading
Technology
Requirements/Tools/Materials
Acknowledgements:
The collective poetry of Langston Hughes "I Know Why a Cage Bird
Sings" By Maya Angalu Trees & Other Poems & Candles That
Burn by Joyce Kilmer "Stopping By Woods on Snowy Evening" by Robert
Frost
Additional Resources
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Career Connection to Teaching with Technology
USDOE Technology Innovation Challenge Grant
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