Lesson 14: Skill: Figurative Language
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
After engaging in a close reading and discussion of “Eleven,” students will be able to analyze figurative language and cite textual evidence to support their analysis of the narrator’s feelings in a short, written response.
How did the figurative language help you better understand the text?
personification, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, simile, idiom, onomatopoeia
Instruction:
CCSS: RL.6.4; L.6.5.A?
Application:
CCSS: RL.6.1, RL.6.4; L.6.5.A; SL.6.1.A, SL.6.1.C, SL.6.2
Purpose: Students will be able to identify figurative language and analyze how it is used for descriptive effect in a work of fiction
small group
reteach
mixed level peers
Students will complete the multiple-choice questions to demonstrate their understanding of figurative language.
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