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Horse Character: Ceramics Lesson

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Animals oftentimes elicit various characteristics which make them symbolic or representative of human feeling, action, or emotion. The class creates horse characters out of clay to show character action and symbolism. This is a great project to use in conjunction with a lesson on personification, character development, or even verbs. A verb is an action and each child's creation can exemplify a motive and an action.

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ceramics, clay, character development, characters, personification, literary devices, figurative language, verbs, parts of speech

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ceramics, character development, personification, verbs, animal symbolism, character action, horse character, english language arts
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Grade
4th - 6th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Project-Based Learning

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