LESSON 7: Personification and alliteration
Mini Lesson on Personification and Alliteration (with review on Similes and Metaphors)
http://prezi.com/iq4a74q8ht73/alliterationsimilemetaphorpersonification/#
Practice with Personification: HOMS pg. 59
Find 2 examples of Personification from the following passage in "Born Bad" and explain what is being personified and how.
(potential responses)
1. Maybe the sky didn't look the day she fell down.
2. But I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.
Practice with Simile/Metaphors: HOMS pg. 60
"I want to be
like the waves on the sea,
likes the clouds in the wind,
but I'm me.
One day I'll jump
out of my skin.
I'll shake the sky
like a hundred violins.
- What are the similes and metaphors in this poem?
- What does the poem that Esperanza reads to her Aunt suggest about her ambitions? What does she want more than anything? What is she most afraid of?
http://prezi.com/iq4a74q8ht73/alliterationsimilemetaphorpersonification/#
Practice with Personification: HOMS pg. 59
Find 2 examples of Personification from the following passage in "Born Bad" and explain what is being personified and how.
(potential responses)
1. Maybe the sky didn't look the day she fell down.
2. But I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.
Practice with Simile/Metaphors: HOMS pg. 60
"I want to be
like the waves on the sea,
likes the clouds in the wind,
but I'm me.
One day I'll jump
out of my skin.
I'll shake the sky
like a hundred violins.
- What are the similes and metaphors in this poem?
- What does the poem that Esperanza reads to her Aunt suggest about her ambitions? What does she want more than anything? What is she most afraid of?
EXTENDED ACTIVITY: Identity Poem with Figurative Language examples and questions
http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/rhaak/files/identity%20poem.pdf
http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/rhaak/files/identity%20poem.pdf
HOMEWORK: Read: Geraldo
No Last Name, Edna’s Ruthie, The Earl of Tennessee, Sire, Four Skinny Trees (pg. 65-75)* After reading each vignette, answer the appropriate questions in the reading packet.
* After reading each vignette, answer the appropriate questions in the reading packet.
* After reading each vignette, answer the appropriate questions in the reading packet.