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1. A Multi-Age Primary Personal Narrative/ Understanding Similes and Metaphors
Vision View the standards Return _ Unit/Lesson Plan _ A Multi-Age Primary Personal Narrative/ Understanding Similes and Metaphors Description This is a three-day lesson within a writing unit on personal narrative essay. The purpose is to focus on the importance of the use of similes and metaphors to show feelings within the essay. Goal/Standard/Level/Benchmark 3.C.2 3.C.2.a KRSP Knowledge: Know what a simile and metaphor is Re...

2. Similes and Metaphors in Poetry
Similes and Metaphors in Poetry Home LESSON PLAN TOPIC: Poetry Teaching Autobiography Teaching Philosophy TITLE: Similes and Metaphors in Poetry Portfolio AUTHOR: Jennifer Sund GRADE: 9-12^th grade Integrated Discipline(s): English, Literature NE STANDARDS: o 12.1.3: By the end of the twelfth grade, students will identif...

3. Figurative Language
Title: Figurative Language Overview/Annotation: This lesson uses a PowerPoint presentation to explain similes and metaphors. Students identify these figurative elements in literature and then create some themselves. (This lesson can be completed in the classroom using presentation device) Content Standard(s): TC(3-5) 10. Demonstrate basic operations of a word processor. TC(3-5) 11. Utilize general purpose productivity...

4. Writing Poetry
...rch Papers Lesson TITLE: Fruit Poetry Plans Technology Masters Program AUTHOR: Joselyn Mays Teacher Resources My Classroom GRADE: 3-7 NE STANDARDS: 8.1.3 By the end of the eighth grade, students will identify and classify different types of text. OBJECTIVES: -To be able to correctly use similes and metaphors when writing a poem contrasting the inside and outside of a piece of fruit MATERIALS: -a variety of cut up fruit (apple, strawberry, orange, lime, peach, etc.) PROCEDURES Anticipatory Set: Display the fruit on a checkered tablecloth and ask students, ?How can I use a piece of fruit to create a poem?...

5. Lesson Plan for Non-Fictional Read Aloud
...h of February, Black History Month, when we would talk a lot about various famous African-Americans who have influenced the United States.? Langston Hughes was a famous author who could certainly serve as a role model for students today, black or white.? Reading Objective: TLW? identify examples of metaphors and similes within the book TLW? understand how this figure of speech is used in writing TLW? create examples of metaphors and similes Procedure:? Part 1: Ask the students what they think of when they hear ?The boy ran fast? and then, when they hear, ?The boy ran as fast as a horse?.? Remind student...

6. Poem Lesson
...al meanings of words and phrases. Annotated Bibliography Body of Lesson: 1. What is a poem? Discuss for a few minutes the ideas or images that poems try to evoke and how it does this. Write student ideas on blackboard, in the form of a list. Reading History 2. Move discussion toward a discussion of metaphors, similes, literal and non-literal language. What is a metaphor? What is a simile? What does literal mean? Write results of discussion on board. 3. Introduce the poem "How to Eat a Poem" by Eve Merriam, handing out the poem to every student. Discuss the title first. We've already talked about what a...

7. Metaphors in Shakespeare -Folger Shakespeare Library
Home Shop Calendar Join Buy Tickets Hamnet Site Rental Press Room About UsWhat's On Use the Collection Discover ShakespeareTeach & LearnFolger InstituteSupport Us Teach and Learn Metaphors in Shakespeare Materials and Resources ? Teaching Materials ? Featured Lesson Plans « return to previous page ? Lesson Plans Archive ? Featured Primary Standards Covered Sources Salvador Dali. Costume design ? Primary Sources for As you like it. Color print, Archive 1948. View standards used in this...

8. Alternate Word Use
...or a variety of purposes. Students will speak effectively in a variety of formal and informal situations. SD Content Standard Indicators: SD Content Standard Benchmarks: Other Content Standards: Brief Summary of Unit: This unit will concentrate on how language in the world is affected by idioms and metaphors. The goal is that students will understand that word use determines how we understand the world around us. This will be accomplished through activities that culminate into a poster and presentation of idioms and metaphors. Students will Understand: Students will understand that word use determines h...

9. Similes and Metaphors
...+ Traveling Buddies + Classroom Pets + Pen Pals + Post Cards Chatroom Meetings Advertise <> Print Lesson Teachers.Net Nav Chat Center Teachers Administrators Grade Level Subjects States Interest Groups Projects Classified Ads Help Wanted Email: State: 3216. Similes and Metaphors Reading/Writing, level: Middle Posted Sun Sep 12 09:41:52 PDT 2004 by R. Marriott (becca9341@aol.com). Brick, NJ Activity Time: One Class Period GRADE 7: LANGUAGE ARTS SIMILES AND METAPHORS Rebecca Marriott June 24, 2004 OBJECTIVES 1. Students will be able to (SWBAT) write similes and metaphors. 2....

10. Figurative Language
...iterary devices within various texts SD Content Standard Benchmarks: Explain what authors accomplish through the use of both literary elements and devices, e.g., theme/imagery: character/personification Other Content Standards: Brief Summary of Unit: This unit examines figurative language: similes, metaphors and idioms Students will Understand: 1. Students will understand that authors use figurative language to enable the reader to visualize written material 2. Students will understand that similes and metaphors compare two unlike things 3. Students will understand that idioms have meanings that are dif...