EpiphanyofTruth

This is a review/practice sheet that should be coincide with Day 7 of the parts of speech unit.

This is a worksheet to practice pronoun-antecedent agreement.

This is the end of the novel exam.

Students choose an idiom. They write a newspaper article as though the idiom was literal. They can make it funny, creative, etc. Then, on the back side of the story, they will write the real meaning of the idiom as well as use it in a sentence. It includes an example and a scoring guide. I have uploaded it in Word so that you can make changes if you wish.

This is an assessment for the figurative language unit. It includes matching term and definition for simile, metaphor, analogy, allegory, allusion, symbol, pun, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and personification. There is a poem where they must find examples of terms. There are sentences that they must identify as terms.There is a constructed response section that focuses on theme, symbolism, mood, and tone.

This is a worksheet that can be done individually or with a partner to practice with similes, metaphors, and analogies.

This is a reading quiz that should coincide with Day 14 of Holes unit.

This is a reading quiz to be used Day 8 of Holes Unit.

This is a great, fun activity for students after learning about similes and metaphors. Students will fill out the boxes on "stick man." You can take this a step further and have the students either draw what it would look like if everything was literal or write a poem/rap using the information from stick man.

This ticket can be used with any book, and it is in a Word document so that you can make changes. If you are not sure what a fat question is, I also have a handout that I give my students very early in the school year.

This is the handout that students will use to research and discover symbols in the novel as well as throughout the Bible. This should be used on Day 15 of the Holes unit.

This is the end-of-the-unit exam.

This is for Holes, but it could be used for any novel with a switch of title and page numbers. This should be given Day 2 of Holes unit.

This is the handout to go with Day 6 of Holes unit.

This is Cornell notes that focus on symbol, allegory, and alllusion.

Students will watch Mater Tales and identify figurative language from the cartoon.

This is a review for symbol, mood, tone, and figurative language in the form of constructed response.

This is a handout to help students practice identifying the terms discussed, such as simile, personification, hyperbole, idiom, pun, metaphor, and analogy.

This is practice identifying symbols, mood, tone, and theme in short pieces.

This is a handout that I go through with students early in the year, as I expect them to write fat questions to bring to discussion and show critical thinking skills as they are reading.