7 Day Unit: Day 3
1-Month Unit: Day 4
Agenda:
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Do Now: Flocabulary
Notes: Personification
Glossary: Metaphor, Simile & Personification
Practice: Identify and analyze the
personification
• Independent practice: Write your own poem!
Do Now
Directions: Watch the Flocabulary
video to find out about
personification and answer the
following:
What is personification?
Give an example:
Today’s Objectives
SW
• define, identify, and analyze personification
in poems through writing analysis
paragraphs.
• write original poems about their
neighborhood using personification.
Notes: Personification
Questions & Key Words
What is personification?
Details
• Giving human qualities to non-human
things.
What are some examples of non-human things?
What are some examples of human qualities?
Examples of
personification:
• My alarm clock screams.
This is an example of personification because
_____________________________________
• The pencil cries when the eraser is thrown
across the room.
This is an example of personification because
_____________________________________
Notes: Personification continued…
Your turn! Create some
examples of
personification with these
starters….
The sunshine ______________________________.
The rusty door hinge ________________________.
The culinary lunch ___________________________.
The car ___________________________________.
My clothes _________________________________.
Why do you think poets
may decide to use
personification in their
poems?
Let’s add to our glossary!
Metaphor
Definition: _____________________________________________________________
Example(s):
Simile
Definition: _____________________________________________________________
Example(s):
Personification
Definition: _____________________________________________________________
Example(s):
Directions: Let’s complete each sentence with a
choice from the word box.
The clock _______________ .
My chair _______________ .
The water _______________ .
The pencil _______________ .
The book _______________ .
His shoe _______________ .
Word Box
shouts
is dancing
complains
cries
is tired
laughs
Your turn!
Come up with 6 things you encounter on a typical day in your
neighborhood or your hometown in general and personify them!
1) _________________________________________________________
2) _________________________________________________________
3) _________________________________________________________
4) _________________________________________________________
5) _________________________________________________________
6) _________________________________________________________
Guided
Practice
Directions: Let’s find examples of
personification together. Underline any
example of personification in the poems and
complete the tables.
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
-by Tupac Shakur
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong, it learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
-by Tupac Shakur
What item
is being
personified?
How is the item being
personified? (What human
quality is given to the object?)
What does the personification do to the object?
What item
is being
personified?
How is the item being
personified? (What human
quality is given to the object?)
What does the personification do to the object?
What item
is being
personified?
How is the item being
personified? (What human
quality is given to the object?)
What does the personification do to the object?
What is the effect of Tupac’s personification
in the poem as a whole?
______________________________________
______________________________________
On
Your
Own!!
Directions: On your
own, underline the
examples of
personification in the
poem.
Song for Anacostia
by Fred Joiner
The 94 hums
up the rough side
of Stanton.
Washington’s View’s
open windows blare
drums in the pocket,
the breakdown
of the perfect groove.
The 90 salsas across town
into the forgotten
bottom of DC,
a car alarm echoes its
protest on MLK
two porch griots wail
their pain and pity.
On the corner,
two preachers
can be heard
through the sanctuary
walls,
one reading scripture,
the other ruptured in a
moan.
The smell of last night’s first
drink
poured out in a crooning
ballad
for the missed and missing
a song for a father,
a song for a mother unchilded,
a song for a child
playing ahead of the beat,
a nursery rhyme
for every teddy bear
rooted at a street sign.
This is the sound of blues
breaking
the broken, back together;
the sound of chaos, organizing;
the sound of breath forming
words in vinyl’s backspin
these are the sounds
gathered in blood,
shed for remission of
silence and sadness.
Song for Anacostia
-by Fred Joiner
What item
is being
personified?
How is the item being
personified? (What human
quality is given to the object?)
What does the personification do to the object?
#1
#2
1. What is the meaning of this poem?
2. What is the mood of this poem?
NOW: Create your own poem of at least 8 lines, using the
examples of personification you created about a typical day in
your neighborhood or your hometown, plus at least 1 metaphor
or simile.
The theme of your poem is, A Typical Day
You must use at least 4 examples of personification and
at least 1 metaphor or simile
Your poem must be at least 8 lines long
After 10 minutes, we will...
SHARE OUT!!
Wrap it up!
1. What is the effect of personification?
2. Why might a poet use personification?