Activity 3: Figuratively
Speaking: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, or Idiom? (GLEs:
03c, 03e, 04a, 09d, 09e, 09g, 16)
CC: Then students will use the following prompt: Self-Portrait My _____ is like _______________________________________. My ________ are like ___________________________________. My ____________ are __________________________________. My ____________ is ___________________________________. I live in ____________ and eat ______________.
Students will practice writing personification examples by imagining that they are an object in the classroom (e.g., book, pencil, sharpener, desk, computer). Students will then write a logically organized descriptive paragraph, using first-person point of view and sensory images focusing on what they see, hear, smell, and feel from the object’s viewpoint.
Use MS Word to create a worksheet for the writing prompt and instructions for the descriptive paragraph.
Additional Resources: Figurative Language http://www.kidskonnect.com/FigurativeLanguage/FigurativeLanguageHome.html A website which is useful when referring to poetic devices
Poetic Devices and Examples http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june00/poetryboxrules.html# The Poetry Page http://www.cqsb.qc.ca/svs/434/tpoetry.htm
The Academy of American Poets
Poetic
Devices Idea Bank-Inspiration-Onomatopoeia http://www.mcschools.net/mcs/idea_bank/Inspiration/onomatopoeia.html
Mrs.
Dowling's Literature
Thematic Graphic Organizer http://home.att.net/~teaching/langarts/poetry.pdf
Software: Microsoft Word to develop journals and write descriptive paragraphs Inspiration for brainstorming Inspiration for creating an outline when developing the descriptive paragraph Inspiration software to record students' responses and to develop graphic organizers
Use Inspiration software for graphic organizers. Inspiration Quick Tips http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/intech/quick_tips/inspiration.htm
Microsoft PowerPoint to create their own examples of similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, or idioms.
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