Name: Pablo Oxandabarat
Course: Literature II Week: 16
Date: January 9th, 2019
No. of Ss: 06
Lesson Learning Objective: By the end of the lesson students will be able to recognize and analyze figurative language such as simile, metaphor,
personification and apostrophe.
Important Considerations: Ss may get confused with the concept of personification and apostrophe as well as simile and metaphor. I will make a difference
by providing concrete, clear examples of each one of them.
Activity
Procedure
Welcome back students. Explain and identify the content to be studied this week. Write objective on Bb.
WARM-UP
Time
5’
Tell students that you have just read a book that was so good that you couldn’t put it down. Then, have
students discuss the language you used to describe the book. Ask them if you meant that you literally
could not let go of the book. Explain that your language was figurative—not meant to be taken literally.
20’
Have students suggest other examples of figurative language that they have heard.
1.- Display the Two-column Chart transparency, draw a facsimile on the chalkboard, or distribute copies
of it to the class. At the top of the left column, write “Item.” At the top of the right column, write
“Compared To.”
2.- Tell students that figurative language often compares two things in order to highlight a key aspect of
DEVELOPMENT one. Tell them that the ending of the book you read was as surprising as a sudden storm. Write ending in
the left column and storm in the right column of the chart. Point out that your statement compared the
ending with a storm, using the word as. Explain that your statement is a simile, a type of figurative
language that compares two things using like or as.
3.- Use this example to illustrate a metaphor: The plot is a surprising journey. Write plot in the left
column and journey in the right. Ask students to explain how this metaphor compares the two entries.
How might a plot be like a surprising journey?
4.- Remind students that you said that a book had a grip on you. Write book in the left column and
person or hands in the right column. Explain that your statement is an example of personification,
figurative language that gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.
80’
Material
smartboard
Planning
Wifi connection
Padlet
5.- Explain apostrophe, using the definition above. Point out that apostrophe often involves
personification. In Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago,” the speaker addresses the city of Chicago as if it
were a person. Write Chicago in the left column and person who is present in the right.
Distribute copies of the Simile, Metaphor, Personification, and Apostrophe student activity sheet for
students to complete independently, with partners, or in small groups. If you wish, discuss students’
responses in class. You might also encourage them to consider these questions:
How is this work enriched by figurative language? What would it be like if the author used only literal
90’
language?
Ask Ss what was done today in class. Go over the highlights of the class. Assign Quiz 11 for homework.
CLOSURE
5’