This Lesson's Title:
Unique Metaphor Collections
playing with word choice and idea development to build a page in students' Writers Notebooks
This lesson was built for WritingFix after being proposed by NNWP Teacher Consultant
Amie Newberry while attending an
AT&T-sponsored in-service class for teachers.
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T he intended "mentor text" to be used when teaching this on-line lesson is the chapter book Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. Before writing, students should listen to and discuss the writing style of this book's author, especially from one of this book.
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Three-Sentence Overview of this Lesson:
Metaphors are everywhere, being used by both writers and average people to describe our world. Inspired by the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, students will discover metaphors in their world and reading and create their own unique metaphorical descriptions for a collection they devote a page to in their writers notebooks or their journals. Once a collection of unique metaphors has been built in the writers notebook, teachers can challenge students to create a longer piece of writing (poem, narrative, reflection, etc.) that is inspired by one or several of their metaphors. Teachers: click here to read the entire lesson plan.
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6-Trait Overview for this Lesson:
The focus trait is word choice;
in this study of metaphors, students will learn how to create rich descriptions with their words, inspired by specific nouns. The support trait is idea development ;
students will explore how powerful writers use metaphor to enhance their writing, and how they can use it to become better writers.
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