Students will read a description and example of personification. Students will then read sentences and determine if they include personification or not. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read a description, example, and explanation of personification. Students will then read phrases and write sentences that incorporate personification. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read sentences, identify the use of onomatopoeia, complete sentences using onomatopoeia, and write sentences that include onomatopoeia. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read sentences to identify personification, read and write to complete sentences that include personification, and read ideas and write sentences that include personification. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read a description and an example of personification. Students will then read phrases and write words and paragraphs that use personification. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
In this lesson, students explore how to create their own metaphors for life.
In this lesson, students practice thinking abstractly to write a "Life Is..." poem.
In the short story, "Lob’s Girl," a girl, Sandy, and her dog, Lob, create an emotional bond that provides the will to survive. The story follows a chronological sequence from the time Sandy and Lob first met, how they strengthen their bond through life events, to the culminating accident where Sandy is seriously injured and Lob helps revive her in the most mysterious manner. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments; writing samples included.
The Lost City of the Aztecs is about the demise of the Aztec Empire and how Montezuma, the last Aztec emperor, reacted to the arrival of the Spaniards at Tenochtitlan in 1519. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, students will use the individual experience of Mary McLeod Bethune to analyze choice, its affects on social equality, and impact on their own life experiences.
Activities and worksheets on the use and identification of metaphors.
In this lesson, students will complete the mid unit assessment using the final stanza of the poem.
In this lesson, students are asked to both identify/interpret the figurative language in this passage. They use a graphic organizer identical to the one they used to track figurative language.
In this lesson, students are asked to tread the monologue "Pask, the Runaway" in Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! and consider how the author's word choice contributes to tone and theme development.
A young Bedouin girl has earned the nickname Nadia the Willful because of her quick temper. Her brother, Hamed, is the only one who can tame her temper. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments; writing samples included.
What should a good narrative contain? For this lesson, a mystery, a type of narrative realistic fiction, will be composed. Since strong adjectives and adverbs will support a mystery, they will be incorporated into the writing.
A short instructional video that helps students decipher ambiguous newpaper headlines and dual meanings in language.
In this lesson, students will continue to analyze point of view and figurative language.
In this lesson, students will work in groups to analyze an excerpt of Flush for point of view, figurative language, tone, and meaning.
In this lesson, students will use a Point of View graphic organizer in order to help identify figurative language and assess the point of view of Noah.