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Metaphors In Poetry
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Arts Discipline:
Poetry/Similes and Metaphors
Grade level--
4th
Grade
Standards:
1.0 Artistic Perception-Develop Perceptual Skills and Visual
Arts Vocabulary
Approximate
time— 3-4 Days over 30-40 minutes
Topic—
Focus on using metaphors and similes
Rationale— Students
need to learn how to use metaphors and
similes within poetry to create imagery.
Objective
- Students
will be able to write and identify metaphors in a given
context.
Overarching
goal: By the end of Day 3, students will be able to
identify the difference between similes and metaphors either written or
orally.
Interdisciplinary
Connections— Language Arts Standards for
4th Grade- LS2.4-Recite brief poems… L.S. 1.8-use details,
examples, anecdotes …
Strategy--
Instructional strategies will vary. Some may be combined.
Here are the basic strategies: Direct instruction (I do) Practice (We
do—teacher and students) Independent/Assessment (You
do-students only).
Vocabulary—
- Metaphors:
comparing two things
Adjectives-describes a noun
- Use
videos from Brain Pop:
userid:
nationalsd (or: "nationalsd_teacher" after hours) password:
nationalsd
Day 1 Introduction—
Metaphor examples taken from the story
“ Finding Titanic” by Robert Ballard. Houghton
Mifflin, Theme 1. (10 minutes)
- To
build background teacher will give
students questions. Question: “What are some ways authors
write to make their details more vivid? (students should definitely
mention adjectives and similes in their responses. If they do not make
sure you explicitly mention these)
- Teacher
will have students read
pages 85-87. Students should look for descriptions of the Titanic.
- Students
can work with a partner to find at least 4 description
phrases. For example from page 85: “beautiful new
ship”, or “it had nine decks”.
- Teacher
can chart their responses.
- eacher
can relate this review to
adjectives.
Procedures—(20 minutes)
- Teacher
can give a definition of metaphors.
- Teacher
will show
BrainPop.com, section on metaphors/similes. (If teacher does not have
BrainPop or access to it, then this is the time to make explicit the
difference between metaphors and similes).
- Teacher
explicitly goes
over the difference between metaphors and similes. Teacher may use a
venn diagram.
- Students
will take the description phrases from the
introduction and create metaphor and simile phrases.
- Students
should create at least 2 metaphor, 2 simile phrases.
- For
example:
Simile- The beautiful new ship is like an enormous blue whale in the
ocean
Metaphor-It had nine decks that are a stack grandma’s
pancakes.
- Students
will share out their responses.
- This
can be used as as
an assessment or the Brain Pop quiz.
Closure—
(5 minutes) 13. “ We will continue to
review different figures of speech in the next few weeks.”
Clean-up--
- Assessment—
Day 3—written metaphors and
similes
- Resources/Materials—
promethean board, student
journals or folders, Houghton Mifflin-Theme 1
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