Students explore plants in science and England as they synthesize data from the book, "The Secret Garden in this twelve lessons unit. Comparisons between the nuturing needs of plants and humans are made.

Seventh graders analyze grammatical structures and identify literary elements in a variety of texts. Through the genre of folktales, ancient or indigenous cultures are studied.

Students examine figurative language in writing. Students demonstrate simile, metaphor, and personification in their own writing.

Students read and analyze several highly symbolic poems. They create their own symbolic poem, read it to the class, and discuss whether they can guess any hidden meanings.

Students study and discuss definitions of metaphor, simile, and personification. In small groups, they read a section of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and identify those devices. The group presents their examples with the class.

Learners explore personification through reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Langston Hughes. Then they use the poems as a guide to brainstorm lists of nouns and verbs that they randomly arrange to create...

This is probably my students' favorite writing assignment. They obviously tell their friends about it, because every year my ne

Students imagine themselves someplace -- the beach, a mountain top, a city street -- anywhere.

Students explore Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.  In this figurative language instructional activity, students locate similes, metaphors, and examples of personification in their reading.  Students write down the page numbers...

Students write a creative writing piece by personifying apples. In this creative writing lesson plan, students view a PowerPoint about the writing process and brainstorm about apples. Students write a rough draft about their apple and...

Students analyze museum artifacts and create conversations between these inanimate objects using prior historical knowledge. In this museum artifact lesson plan, students create theoretical dialogue between historical artifacts in order...

In this personification worksheet, students read the examples of personification. Students then write down some of their own personification ideas.

In this coloring worksheet, 2nd graders are given a line drawing of a silly dog with a newspaper in its mouth. The newspaper has eyes and hands; the worksheet can be used as a prompt for an essay on personification, or perhaps a starter...