Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Title: Publishing A Personification Story Through eBook

Concept / Topic to Teach: Interpret figures of speech. Personification is a figure of speech that

will be used as an example to teach the topic.

General Goal(s): Understand word relationships, metaphorical language, and the complexity of

word meanings.

Specific Objectives: Students will personify an object and compose a story for an online book.

The story will use conflict, incidents, and circumstances to enable the audience to picture what it

may be like to be a certain object.

Required Materials:

 Notebook or scratch paper to sketch and plan eBook story

 Chromebook or iPad to create and design e-book

Anticipatory Set (Lead-In): Get students to engage by reading them nursery rhymes, fables, and

fairy tales that personify animals. After exploring the reading examples of personification

students will be asked to get into groups and personify an object in the classroom. They will

brainstorm human traits that can along with the personified object. Students will also be asked to

pretend they are the object and answer the following questions:
  What are you good at?

 What are you bad at?

 What/how do you see?

 What/how do you hear?

 Where do you live?

 What are you afraid of?

 What do you dream of?

Step-By-Step Procedures: 

 Students will be introduced to the topic and engage in the anticipatory set (lead-in)

 Independent Practice

 Brainstorming and Pre-planning ideas for publishing a personification story. This will be

part of the assessment

 Create a personification story through E-book

 Exam

 Reflection

Plan For Independent Practice: Students will need to read a book that personifies an object or

animal. After reading the book they will need to create a paragraph that explains how the object

or animal is personified and describe the human traits that were used.

 
Closure (Reflect Anticipatory Set): Students will complete a reflection on the lesson by

completing the following questions:

What was your favorite part of the lesson?

What was your least favorite part of the lesson?

What did you learn and how did you learn it?

How will this help you with reading and writing?

Assessment Based On Objectives: A method that will be used to assess student learning is an

exam on the lesson. Students will be tested on the general goals that were created for the lesson

and will also have to create a written story personifying an object. The stories will help evaluate

how well students can identify characters, settings, and plots.

The exam will be posted on canvas and will consist of 35 multiple choice questions. The

question will be asking students what personification is, how it is used, and classify the different

kinds of figurative speech.

Possible Connections to Other Subjects: Development and organization of writing, vocabulary

use, students using technology to create and present knowledge and ideas