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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Personification With "Grass" by Carl Sandburg

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be reading the poem "Grass" and identify the main idea and supporting details with a partner. Students will then write a poem using personification.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Personification for Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
An explanation of personification and how it is used in poetry followed by a personification maker. Students push the buttons to create a personification and then write a poem that uses and expands on it.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigative Case: Protistan Tales of Atlantic White Cedar Swamps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A WebQuest where students explore microbial diversity by looking at the extreme habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp. Students will learn about protists through personification theme of Aesop's Fables. At the end of the lesson,...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Literary Terms Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 7: Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Jimi Hendrix's 'The Wind Cries Mary' is an ideal song, not just to illustrate personification, but also to demonstrate how poetic devices enhance the meaning of the poem. As soon as the young scholars recognize that the speaker is...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: My Adidas: Letting Your Possessions Tell Your Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will listen to Run D.M.C.'s classic, "My Adidas", then they will think about everywhere their shoes have taken them and the story they have to tell. Using literary devices such as personification, point of view,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Personified Number Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is used as the mentor text. Students will explore numbers and the properties of these numbers. Students will then write a math story, using the explored numbers, and incorporate...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five to seven lessons that teach about figurative language like similes, metaphors, and personification by asking students to write award acceptance speeches that incorporate them. In addition to objectives and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify and explain the meaning of figurative language including personification and idiom. Lessons are based on the books Once in a Blue...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: I Have a Metaphor

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a lesson in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the following literary devices:...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Style Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on rhetorical devices and how to use them effectively in public speaking. These include alliteration, antithesis, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition and parallelism, and simile and metaphor.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Very Quiet Cricket

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
During this lesson, students will write a sequel to The Very Quiet Cricket. The students will discuss and demonstrate the use of personification in the story. The class will also complete a WebQuest about The Very Quiet Cricket.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Word Roots Lesson 6: Plic Fac Cogn:word Roots #6 Intermediate

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan features the Latin roots PLIC = fold, bend; FAC-FIC = make, do; COGN-NOT = know. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle has directions, a clue and a vocabulary word list....
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: There Once Was...

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Part 2 of this tutorial on limerick writing demonstrates the importance of form (meter and rhyme) in limerick poetry using the exemplary and amusing work of Edward Lear.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Scary Somethings

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Dick Gackenbach's classic picture book, Harry and The Terrible Whatzit, is a wonderful story about a child and his fear of the Whatzit that he is sure lives in his cellar. The story shows how through determination and the desire to save...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Death Personified

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will personify an object within a poem. They will focus on voice and word choice in order to fully convey their message.
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Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: A Day as Your Shoes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
It's fun to personify articles of clothing as a means of inspiring creative writing from your students, and this mini-workshop has students a) personify their shoes on a page in their writer's notebook, b) share their story ideas out...
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Using Figurative Language to Shape Meaning and Style

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
The students will be able to identify different types of figurative language in a story and explain how the author uses figurative language to shape the meaning and style of the story.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Memories of a Pet or Object

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson, inspired by Gary Paulsen's My Life in Dog Years, helps learners write memoirs or narratives about their lives through the eyes of a pet, a favorite pair of jeans, or their shoes. Students choose one item that is very close...

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