Focus on Figurative Language in Stories
Focus on Figurative Language in Stories
Objectives
Students build on the understandings they gained in Lesson 1 by examining and discussing images they choose from the readings. Students will:
- identify examples of imagery, metaphor, and simile in the story “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” (or similar text).
- explain how the use of imagery and figurative language supports meaning.
Essential Questions
- How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
- How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
- What is this text really about?
- Why learn new words?
- What strategies and resources do I use to figure out unknown vocabulary?
- How do learners develop and refine their vocabulary?
Vocabulary
- Connotation: The ideas or emotions associated with a word.
- Imagery: A word or group of words in a literary work that appeal to one or more of the senses.
- Metaphor: A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
- Figurative Language: Language that cannot be taken literally because it was written to create a special effect or feeling.
- Simile: A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as.
Duration
40 minutes–1 hour, 20 minutes/1–2 class periods
Prerequisite Skills
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Materials
“Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” was chosen for its use of imagery and figurative language to create mood or otherwise affect the reader. Stories such as Ray Bradbury’s
“All Summer in a Day” or “The Pedestrian” may be substituted. Teachers may substitute other texts to provide a range of reading and level of text complexity.
- “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” from S Is for Space by Ray Bradbury. Bantam Books, 1966.
- student examples of imagery from Lesson 1
- reading/language arts notebooks
- Lesson 2 Activity Assessment worksheet (L-7-2-2_Lesson 2 Activity Assessment.doc)
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Final 03/01/2013