Activity

Express Yourself Pre Assessment Lesson 1 & 2

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Find out how much your class knows about literary elements with a quick pre-assessment. Pupils work first individually to identify the instances of personification, metaphor, simile, and more, and then with group members to determine the tone of the poem. A collaborative way to find areas of difficulty for your class in relation to the elements of poetry.

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Pros
  • Included poem is appropriate for the age group and provides many examples of similes, metaphors, etc. to identify and analyze
Cons
  • The word draft is printed across the page, so you will need to copy the poem into another document before printing