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Scholastic

Scholastic: Poetry Unzipped: Personification in Poetry [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Two page, PDF format handout about Richard Wilber's poem "The Death of a Toad" used as an example of personification. Also includes a student-written explanation of the poem and a few discussion questions.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Personification in Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will explore the use of personification in published poetry and write a poem using personification. They will use clay animation to produce a short video of their poem.
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Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Personification

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the book The Runaway Tortilla by Eric A. Kimmel to learn to identify and understand the use of personification in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Personification With "Grass" by Carl Sandburg

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners 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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Emory University

Emory University Writing Center: Personification

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A definition of personification. Includes two examples- one from the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the other from John Keats' poem "To Autumn."
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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: Serendipitous Personification for Stories and Descriptions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will use this writing prompt generator to create a personification story or description.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Personification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to personification and contains activities for practice.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Proteus, Marine Deity From Egypt

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Proteus, a gentle marine deity from Egypt and the personification of the waves who received the gift of prophecy.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Short Stories: "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It features links to the article "The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 and 'Young Goodman Brown'" and the PDF text for the short story. It also defines...
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: The Winds (Anemoi)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Winds (Anemoi), the personifications of the wind's various directions. The most important Winds were Zephyrus, Boreas, Notus and Eurus and others were Skiron, Kaikias, Apeliotis and Lips.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Asclepius

For Students 9th - 10th
Asclepius, the god of healing and medicine, was the personification of the ideal doctor. He even had the power to raise the dead. Zeus feared his power; read to find out what he did to Asclepius.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirit: Helios

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Helios, the personification of the sunlight.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Iris

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the golden-winged Iris who was a goddess of the sea and the sky, the personification of the rainbow, and the female messenger of the gods.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, 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 adjectives,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Personifying Abstractions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about personification and how to use it to when writing about abstract nouns. Finally, students write poems using the nouns they have chosen and personifications they have developed. Teacher and student instructions are...
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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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Other

Seymour Community School District: 10 Rhetorical Devices [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Tyche

For Students 9th - 10th
Read to learn more about Tyche, the Greek goddess of fortune, chance, and the unpredictable, who was the personification of hope, luck, and wealth.
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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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Fuller Brooch

For Students 9th - 10th
The Fuller Brooch is the earliest known personification of the Five Senses. This splendid circular brooch is made from hammered sheet silver. The center part is decorated with five figures who represent the five human senses. In the...
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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 students recognize that the speaker is mourning the...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students examine primary source documents including photographs, film, maps, and essays to learn about Chicago at the turn of the 20th century and Carl Sandburg's famous poem. After examining the poem's use of...
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Metaphor" including a definition and links to simile, personification, hyperbole, anology, and other figures of speech.

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