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Subject: ELA
Grade Level: 5
1. STANDARDS (CA Common Core Standards; NGSS/Content Standards)
Reading 1.5: Understand and explain the figurative and metaphorical use of
words in context.
Reading 2.3: Discern main ideas and concepts presented in texts, identifying and
assessing evidence that supports those ideas.
Reading 2.4: Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and
support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge.
Literary Response 3.1: Identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry, drama,
fiction, and nonfiction and explain the appropriateness of the literary forms
chosen by an author for a specific purpose.
Writing 1.4: 1.4 Use correct capitalization.
Writing 1.5: Spell roots, suffixes, prefixes, contractions, and syllable
constructions correctly.
Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) 2.3: Deliver oral
responses to literature:
a. Summarize significant events and details.
b. Articulate an understanding of several ideas or images communicated
by the literary work.
c. Use examples or textual evidence from the work to support conclusions.
2. OBJECTIVES
Content: The students will learn to use figurative language through poetry
about nature.
Key Vocabulary
a. Onomatopoeia
b. Simile
c. Metaphor
d. Idioms
e. Personification
f. (Hyperbole) - was not covered in lesson on figurative language and may be
skipped
g. (Alliteration) - was not covered in lesson on figurative language and may
be skipped
3. ASSESSMENT
Informal or Formative: I will walk around throughout the discussion to
monitor student discourse. Students will share an example of their figurative
language with a partner, then with me.
A. Students will share in table groups for one minute about what they have learned
about using figurative language, then each table will share one idea with the class.
V. INDEPENDENT PRACTICE (Summative assessment)
A. Students will write a six-line nature poem using figurative language on their own.
5. DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGIES
Anxiety: Students will receive verbal encouragement and be allowed to work in groups
for most of the activity.
Auditory Processing: Students will be supported by the display of the poem on the
document camera as it is being read and throughout the discussion. The students will
also use a worksheet with written instructions for the group and individual brainstorming.
Autism: Allow extra time to complete activities or have complete fewer observations and
poetry lines.
English Learners: This activity is targeted at ELLs in order to deepen their understanding
of figurative language, which many in this class struggle with. We will review the types
of figurative language at the beginning of the lesson as a refresher. By reading,
discussing, and rereading the poem several times, we are exposing them to the ways in
which understanding figurative language can help them read between the lines. The
use of visual and video support will assist in this process. The guided group discussions
will give them an opportunity to be critiqued and supported by their peers as well as the
teacher. The students will also use a worksheet with written instructions for the group
and individual brainstorming.
6. INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
Copy of The Eagle (a Fragment) by Lord Alfred Tennyson for the document camera
Esperanza Rising journals for reference
Paper
Pencils
Worksheets - one per student (28 copies)
1 poem copy per student
Photos/nature books
Title:_____________________________
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Vocabulary:
crag: a steep or rugged cliff or rock face
azure: bright blue in color, like a cloudless sky
Title:_____________________________
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Vocabulary:
crag: a steep or rugged cliff or rock face
azure: bright blue in color, like a cloudless sky
Title:_____________________________
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Vocabulary:
crag: a steep or rugged cliff or rock face
azure: bright blue in color, like a cloudless sky
Title:_____________________________
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Vocabulary:
crag: a steep or rugged cliff or rock face
azure: bright blue in color, like a cloudless sky