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6 th Grade English Class Middle School

6 th Grade English Class Middle School. Reading Virginia SOL 6.3b Identify analogies and figurative language Steve McTeer Career Switcher Program. Virginia Standards of Learning for 6 th graders Language Arts Standards---Reading.

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6 th Grade English Class Middle School

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  1. 6th Grade English ClassMiddle School Reading Virginia SOL 6.3b Identify analogies and figurative language Steve McTeer Career Switcher Program

  2. Virginia Standards of Learning for 6th gradersLanguage Arts Standards---Reading • 6.3 The student will read and learn the meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases • 6.3a Identify words of origin, derivations, and inflections • 6.3b Identify analogies and figurative language • 6.3c Use context and sentence structure to determine meanings…

  3. Va. Standards of Learning cont. • 6.3d Use word reference material

  4. Virginia Standards of Learning6th grade English • Reading SOL • 6.3 The student will read and learn the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases. • 6.3b Identify analogies and figurative language Unit: Literary focus: analyzing literarydevices, i.e. simile, metaphor, and personification

  5. Elements of LiteratureLiterary Devices: Using your Imagination Fiction is a way we communicate our feelings. In fact, some people say that fiction works when it does just that. If your feelings are asleep when you read a story, the story is probably a failure. Here are some of the ways writers use to awaken our feelings as well as our imaginations.

  6. Today’s Lesson We will: • Learn about figurative language • Metaphor • Simile • Personification • See how words can paint pictures in our minds • Practice with examples of figurative language

  7. Can Words Draw Pictures? Do you think so? Today we are going to see how words can draw pictures in our minds

  8. Figurative language • Compares one thing to something very different • Unusual comparisons • Literally not true • 3 common examples of figurative language: • Metaphor: compares two very different things • “He is a bottomless pit, eating everything in sight”. • Simile: compares two very different things, uses a word of comparison, such as like, as, as if, resembles, or seems • “Her face was like ablazing fire

  9. Personification: gives human or living characteristics to something that is not human or is not alive “The wind raced down the mountain, smacking each and every tree on its way to the bottom” Remember that similes and metaphors must be based on some similarities between the two things being compared; otherwise, they don’t make sense Figurative language cont.

  10. Identifying and Interpreting Figurative Language Practice: for each of the following quotations, identify the two things being compared, explain how they are alike, and identify the figure of speech being used: simile, metaphor, or personification • “O my love is like a red, red rose…”-- Robert Burns 2. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want”---from Psalm 23 3. The sea is a hungry dog, Giant and gray. He rolls on the beach all day.---James Reeves

  11. Identifying figurative language cont. 4. “My soul has grown deep like the rivers”—Langston Hughes 5. The dancers floated across the floor like leaves blowing in the wind. 6. The plants stretched their arms toward the sun. 7. The world cried when it heard about the disaster in Japan.

  12. Identifying figurative language cont. • Daisies are little suns shining in a field. • …life is like a flowing river,… • The soft April showers announced the arrival of Spring. • The two horses were like locomotives in front of the wagon.

  13. Now it is YOUR TURN!!! • Make up at least 3 metaphors and 3 similes, each of which compares one of the items listed below to another very different thing (it must be a noun): • A smile…is like the summer sun, shining brightly. …is strong medicine for sadness. …is like a bubbling spring in the mountains. • My mind... is a jumble of hopes and dreams …is cluttered up like my little brother’s closet. …is like the fog on a fall morning.

  14. Your turn cont. • Now make examples of personification out of the following: • A computer…(thinks faster than I do) • Happiness…(wraps her arms around us) • The weather…(hammered the small village) • My dog Bill…(says “hello” to all who visit us)

  15. Your turn cont. • What is your favorite thing?....cooking, eating, fishing, running, your dog, your child, your home, your whatever… • Make up a simile or a metaphor about it… My cats are like circus clowns, always making me laugh every day. My cats are the dinner bell at my house.

  16. Summary • We have defined figurative language • We have defined simile • We have defined metaphor • We have defined personification • We have practiced identifying all three types of figurative language • We have written our own examples of all three types of figurative language

  17. Summary cont. • Can everyone identify a simile, a metaphor, and personification? • Do you know the difference in them? We said we were going to see how words can draw pictures in our minds… Did the words draw pictures in YOUR mind?

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