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Educ 206 Lesson Plan Fall 2022 4
Educ 206 Lesson Plan Fall 2022 4
Essential Question(s): How can we use metaphors to find the themes of a text?
Learning Standards: 9-10R2: Determine one or more themes or central ideas in a text and analyze its
development, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; objectively and
accurately summarize a text.
Day 1 Lesson Topic: Metaphors and Metaphoric Language
Outcomes Assessments
Students will: Day 1: Students will create their own metaphor
Day 1: Identify metaphoric language. about love.
Procedure:
Lesson Introduction
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5 minutes 1. Teacher will post the 1. Unpack the quote 1. Answering the question
quote, “Love is a rose” with the person next to in their notebooks.
on the board. them.
Independent Practice
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Closure:
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Outcomes Assessments
Students will:
Day 2: Identify metaphors in music. Day 2: For homework, students will be asked to
find a metaphor in a song that they like and
unpack that metaphor.
Introduction
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Direct Instruction.
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4. Powerpoint link
Guided Practice:
5 minutes 1. Students will be split 1. Each group will be 1. Students’ answers in the
up into four groups. asked to identify the group work.
metaphor in three
different songs: “ Girl
on Fire” by Alicia Keys”,
“Firework” by Katy
Perry, “Titanium” by
David Guetta, and
15 minutes 2. Teacher will walk “Believer” by Imagine
around to ensure that Dragons.
all students are
participating and have
an understanding of
metaphors.
Independent Practice
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Closure:
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Day 3
Outcomes Assessments
Students will:
Day 3: Identify metaphors and how metaphors Day 3: Students will respond to a short response
support themes. prompt, “How is the theme of love and sacrifice
developed through metaphors throughout the
story?”
Introduction
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Direct Instruction:
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5 mins 1. Present the short 1. Answer the question 1. Answers to the question.
story, The Gift of Magi aloud/in their
notebooks.
2. Ask students what
they think the story is
about based on the
title.
Guided Practice:
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Independent Practice:
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Closure/Summary