Warm Up: Write the following paragraph. Underline the examples of onomatopoeia.
Lesson: The students are learning about onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia are words that resemble the sound they represent, like clash, smash, boom, and buzz. The students made onomatopoeia comic strips. They picked one of the comic strip layouts show below. Comic strip requirements:
Homework: Finish comic strip Warm Up: Add alliteration to your first name by adding an adjective that starts with the same letter as your name. (For example: Energetic Emily, Sophisticated Sam, Grumpy Greg) Lesson: Then the students learned about the next type of figurative language - onomatopoeia! An onomatopoeia is a word that resembles the sound it represents, like crash, bang, smash, and squeak. The students wrote the definition and examples in their figurative language packets. Then the students worked on the practice pages on pages 6-7.
Homework: Finish pages 6-7 Warm Up: Read the following sentences. Does the sentence use personification or alliteration?
Lesson: We started class by sharing our alliteration stories. Then we reviewed personification and alliteration. I read aloud several sentences, and the students had to indicate if it was using personification, alliteration, or both! Homework: None Lesson: Today the students wrote alliteration stories. We watched the video, Robbing Roger, to see an example of an alliterative story. Then the students were given a letter of the alphabet to write their own alliterative stories. Their story had to include words that started with their assigned letter. Their goal was to use that letter as much as possible in their story. We will share their alliterative stories tomorrow!
Homework: Finish alliterative story Warm Up: Write the following sentences. Circle the object that is being personified. Underline the human traits.
Lesson: Today the students learned about a new type of figurative language - alliteration! Alliteration is when an author repeats the same beginning sound in neighboring words. For example:
Homework: Pages 4-5 Warm Up: "The old truck coughed and sputtered."
Lesson: In pairs, the students wrote short stories using personification. I gave them several story starter ideas and they chose one from the list. Then the students wrote a short story with at least five examples of personification. They had to highlight each example of personification. Homework: Finish personification story Warm Up: Rewrite the sentence. Circle the object that being personified. Underline the human traits.
Lesson: Today we continued learning about personification. As a class, we corrected the personification practice page from yesterday. Then the students made personification posters like the one below. The students wrote a sentence with personification on their personification poster. Then they drew a picture to illustrate a literal interpretation of the personification. See the example below: Homework: Finish personification poster
Warm Up: What are the eight types of figurative language we will be learning about? Use the acronym to answer the question.
Lesson: Today we reviewed the difference between figurative and literal language. We watched a Captain Literally video about a superhero who makes it his job to catch people using the word "literally" incorrectly. Then the students looked at several sentences in partners to decide if the sentence used literal or figurative language. Then I read aloud an Amelia Bedelia book, a story about a character who is known for taking figurative language literally. Then the students learned about the first type of figurative language - personification! Personification is when an author gives an idea, object, or animal human traits. For example:
Homework: Finish page 2 Warm Up: The students filled out conference evaluation forms.
Lesson: We started class by talking about conferences. The students filled out conference evaluation forms, which I collected. Then I passed back their persuasive essays, which will be placed in their conference folders. We went over the rubric and I talked about some common mistakes that were made. The students have two weeks to make revisions on their persuasive essays. If students wish to improve their grades, all revisions are due March 30th. On PowerSchool, their persuasive essays are the last four grades in the grade-book. Please email me with questions! Then we started a new unit - figurative language! We will spend the next month learning about eight different types of figurative language.
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