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Personification In Poetry

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Arts Discipline: Poetry/Personification

Grade level-- 4th Grade

Standards: 1.0 Artistic Perception-Develop Perceptual Skills and Visual Arts Vocabulary

Approximate time—1-2 days, 20 minutes Topic—Focus on how personification is used in poetry and in writing

Rationale—Students need to learn how personification is used within poetry.

Objective—
1. Students will be able to define and use personification by writing at least two phrases or sentence using personification.

Interdisciplinary Connections—

Language Arts Standards for 4th Grade- LS2.4-Recite brief poems…
L.S. 1.8-use details, examples, anecdotes …
L.R.A.- 3.5, Define figurative language and identify its use in literary works.

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—

Personification - giving something that is non-human, human qualities.
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery
Adjectives

Day 1 Introduction—

Teacher will go over the objective of the lesson.
Teacher will define personification
Teacher will give examples from the story “The Last Dragon” by Susan Miho Nunes.
Teacher and students can find examples from “The Last Dragon.” Page 455, at the bottom of page 467.

Examples from page 455:

“He was blind, speechless, too for his jaws had been wired tightly shut.”
“His only companions were his severed tail..”

At the bottom of page 467:

“Any old eyes will not do. They must be blessed by a priest, or the dragon will never see.”

Teacher can ask: “What human qualities does the dragon have? How is the dragon portrayed as a human?”

Procedures—(20 minutes)

Students will complete the 4 sentence frames for the “The Last Dragon.” Teacher can use any type of sentence frames, from any story if they do not want to use the “The Last Dragon.”

Sentence frames:
The last dragon walked
The last dragon (verb)
The window (verb)
Now make up your own!!

Closure— (5 minutes)

Share the personification sentences with partners or in small groups.
“We will continue to explore other figurative language.”

Assessment— Day 3—Finishing sentence frames on personification

Resources/Materials—Promethean ActivBoard, student journals or folders, Houghton Mifflin-Theme 4

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May 17, 2012