tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46335182489487830222012-02-14T09:52:14.516-08:00Upper elementary plans for Language Arts, Math, Science and HomeworkPeg's Planshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17100251490471473916noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633518248948783022.post-43577673300694224642012-02-14T09:47:00.000-08:002012-02-14T09:50:22.095-08:00<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond">Metaphor<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:&quot;Tempus Sans ITC&quot;">METAPHOR is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”. In a metaphor the words are almost equal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:&quot;Tempus Sans ITC&quot;"> Example: The boy is lionhearted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; "> MEANING The boy is a lion because he is brave and courageous.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:&quot;Tempus Sans ITC&quot;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond">Metaphors in Action<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond">Read the poem, “Steam Shovel” by Charles Malan<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">The dinosaurs are not all dead.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">I saw one raise its iron head<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">To watch me walk down the road<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">Beyond our house today.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">Its jaws were dripping with a load<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">Of earth and grass that it had cropped.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">It must have heard me where I stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">Snorted white steam my way,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">And stretched its long neck out to see,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">And chewed,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:Garamond">And grinned quite amiably<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Garamond">This is an extended metaphor where the same image is in the entire poem. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Garamond"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Garamond">What two things are being compared?</span></li></ol> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Garamond">What phrase from the second line shows that the shovel is not alive?</span></li></ol> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="3" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Garamond">What idea do you get from “Its jaws were dripping…”?</span></li></ol> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="4" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Garamond">What words from the poem show a similarity to dinosaurs?</span></li></ol> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="5" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Garamond">What does the poem mean by “snorted white steam…”?</span></li></ol> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="6" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; 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