Lesson Plan V
Simile and metaphor
As students enter the classroom, they will see different cards from the Loteria, a Mexican game like Bingo but, instead of numbers they will find typical figures or characters. The teacher will explain the definition of Simile and metaphor. The first is the comparison between two similar things using the word "as" or "like." Metaphor is a comparison between two different things, but saying that one thing is the other.
The teacher will give the students different examples of similes and metaphors. The students will pass out the cards. Every student obtains one card and come up with and original simile and an original metaphor. The students will only have one minute before to tell their examples to the class and will pass the card to another student. The process will end when every student has had all the "Loteria" cards.
To conclude the introduction to these figures of speech, the teacher will request the students to identify the metaphors and similes Found in High School Essays by writing an S in front of the sentence if it is a simile, or M if it is a metaphor. The list is found in: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tran0397/lists/metaphors.html
It is recommended to use as example of metaphor the poem Dreams by Langston Hughes:
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.
The calculated time for this lesson is 1 hour approximately.
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