Friday, January 6, Similes and Metaphors

Objective: By the end of class, you will write an original simile poem and original metaphor poem.

DO NOW

So far, we have practiced alliteration, rhyme (couplets), personification, metaphors and similes.

Give me an example of each.

1. A DREAM DEFERRED - Langston Hughes - read and identify literary devices. Discuss possible message or theme.

2. Simile handout. Read directions together.

3. Complete SIMILE graphic organizer. Use organizer to write a simile poem. For example, if two traits on your organizer are "tall" and "pretty eyes" then two lines of your poem can be:

She was as tall as a skyscraper

and had eyes that sparkled like the stars....

When complete, let me proof read and then you will rewrite for display.

4. Metaphor of My Family Poem

Read Sample poems on handout. Decide on something that might represent your family (i.e a school, a book, the circus, the universe, an army, etc). Use the samples as a guide to write your own metaphor poem. Each family member becomes a part of your metaphor. Save yourself for last.

These poems will also be displayed. When finished with rough draft, review with me and them rewrite on good paper and illustrate.

Exit pass

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get."

Who said it? Change this simile into a metaphor.

Here is your answer to NO MAN IS AN ISLAND - it is a poem by John Donne. It means no man can survive alone. We need each other on this planet to live. We are all just a part of something greater than ourselves.

No man is an island
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne