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Explain why some poets choose to use metaphors by identifying and explaining the elements of poetry found in various poems about nature.
Book: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky (September, 1983) pp. 93 – 95
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What is a metaphor?
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Why do poets choose to use metaphors? How do metaphors help a reader better understand a poem's message? Use examples from multiple poems to support your answer.
Questions about the text that will help guide the students understanding
Read the line from the poem: "Their living room is a bowling alley." What type of figurative language is this? Why does the author include this description? ("The People Upstairs")
How does the speaker feel about the people upstairs? Why? ("The People Upstairs")
Identify the metaphors. Why does the author include the metaphor? (Concrete mixers are urban elephants.) ("Concrete Mixers")
Identify the similes. Why does the author include the similes? How do they help readers visualize concretemixers? ("Concerte Mixers")
Other things to make sure to notice: zebra - simile, crowds - repetition and shape, sing a song of people - repetition, rhyming ("Concrete Mixers")
Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
metaphor
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New Focus: metaphor (See notes in vocabulary/content knowledge for definition.)
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RL.3.3 — Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RL.3.5 — Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
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Describe how the poet uses the structural elements of poetry to help readers better understand the central message of a poem by identifying and explaining the elements of poetry found in various poems about nature.
Explain why some poets choose to write in free verse and other poets choose to include rhyme scheme by identifying and explaining the elements of poetry found in various poems about nature.
Standards
RL.3.2RL.3.5
Explain why some poets use alliteration and similes by identifying and explaining the elements of poetry found in various poems about nature.
Explain why some poets choose to include onomatopoeia by identifying and explaining the elements of poetry found in various poems about nature.
RL.3.5
Analyze and explain why some poets use repetition by identifying and explaining the elements of poetry found in various poems about nature.
RL.3.2RL.3.3
Explain how different poets use the structural elements of poetry to help readers better understand the ways of living things by stating a claim and providing evidence from multiple sources to support the claim.
RL.3.2RL.3.5W.3.1
Explain why some poets use personification by identifying and explaining the elements of poetry found in various poems about nature.
RL.3.3RL.3.5
Explain how different poets use the structural elements of poetry to help readers better understand the city by stating a claim and providing evidence from multiple sources to support the claim.
3 days
Write a personal poem using strategies learned from studying poets in the unit.
SL.3.5W.3.3
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