Personification Activities Middle School
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Why do we often submit our students to long, dull, (dare I say, torturous) poetry units that they hate? Why not make poetry as fun and exciting as it has the potential to be?This unit does just that! Inside this .pdf file, you will find 10 elements of poetry lesson plans and activities plus a pre anPrice $27.00Original Price $41.49Save $14.49
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Searching for an engaging personification activity that your middle school students will enjoy? Enhance your poetry unit with these NO-PREP, Print-and-Go figurative language resources that will help your students become masters of Personification in Poetry!
Using an engaging Slides Presentation, students will learn to identify, analyze and write with personification. Ample examples of figurative language are provided in this lesson plan for teaching and modeling and guided practice opportunities are built into the lesson.
Three independent practice assignments are included:
1) Practicing with Personification;
2) Analyzing Figurative Language in Gary Soto's "Ode to Mi Gato"; and
3) Writing with Figurative Language.
Answer Keys and Rubrics are provided! Minimal Prep Teacher Prep!
This lesson can be used in a traditional classroom setting OR digitally with Easel activities!
What's Included:
- General Teacher Guidelines and Instructions
- Lesson outline with step-by-step teacher instructions.
- Link to Engaging Google Slides Presentation that will guide you and your students through the lesson and the activities.
- Student assignment practicing identifying and analyzing personification; independent Practice distinguishing between personification, similes and metaphors.
- Answer Key for "Personification" assignment.
- Independent Practice reading "Ode to Mi Gato."
- Answer Key for "Ode to Mi Gato" assignment.
- Creative Writing Assignment
- Grading Rubric for Creative Writing Assignment.
Lesson Outline:
- Personification Introduction and Examples
- Teacher Modeling and Guided Practice Identifying Personification
- Independent Practice Identifying and Analyzing Personification
- Teacher Modeling and Guided Practice: Personifying Objects
- Independent Practice: Personifying Objects
- Discussion on How Personification Affects Poetry
- Viewing Personification in Poems
- Teacher Modeling and Guided Practice distinguishing between Similes/Metaphors/Personification.
- Independent Practice
- "Ode" introduction.
- Independent Practice: "Ode to Mi Gato" - Similes, Metaphors and Personification.
- Introduce Creative Writing Assignment
- Teacher Model/Example
- Independent Practice Creative Writing Assignment
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