COMPREHENSIVE LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
Date Submitted:
8/26/2015
Instructor Name: Deanna Addis
Class Location: Lakeview Day
LESSON BASICS
Meaningful Topic:
Similes and Metaphors
Student Types/Group:
☒ABE
☒ESL
☒HS Equiv Prep
Length of Lesson:
1.5 hours
☒Career Aware ☒College Prep
☒SPOKES
☐Computer Lit
☐Other: Click here to enter text.
Standard(s):
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.5.a
Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors (e.g., as
pretty as a picture) in context.
Depth of Knowledge:
☒1. Recall and Reproduction
☒2. Skills and Concepts
☒3. Short-term Strategic
Thinking
☐4. Extended Thinking
Essential Question:
What are you actually saying?
Objective(s):
Students to think deeper on why they repeat common sayings when trying to make a
point.
Required Materials/Equipment/Technology/Community Resources:
Interactive Whiteboard, Responder System, Computer, Projector, Worksheets
Provided
Prior Knowledge/
Required Vocabulary:
Instructional Methods:
Connections:
☒Large Group
A basic understanding of
Simile
☒Small Group
the English language
☐Cooperative Learning
Metaphor
Idiom
☐Project-based
☒Independent Study
☐Computer-assisted
☒One-on-One Tutorial
☒Individualized
☐Guest Speaker
☐Field Trip
ACTIVITY PLAN
1. Warm-up/Review/Connections:
“I feel like a fish out of water.” “My son is going to be toast when he gets home.” “She
is as annoying as nails on a chalkboard.”
Why would I say these things? What do I really mean? What are these types of
expressions called?
2. Introduction to Content/Explanation:
Watch YouTube Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSBVNUO2LU
3. Presentation/Model the Learning Process:
OnBoard Presentation – Similes and Metaphors
4. Scaffolded/Guided Concrete Practice:
Discuss the poem “Storm at Sea” by Amar Qamar
Use different color pens on whiteboard to circle similes and metaphors.
5. Communicative/Collaborative Concrete Practice and Grouping Strategies:
Have students work in small groups to recall similes and metaphors they have heard
often at home.
6. Independent Concrete Practice/Application:
Worksheet - Identify the Words and Meaning of Metaphors and Similes
7. Assessment:
BQ Responder Assessment - Similes and Metaphors
8. Wrap-up/Concluding Activity:
Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down
9. Instructor Reflection: N/A (Have not used in class yet)
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What did not go as planned? Click here to enter text.
What should change? Click here to enter text.
What should be addressed in future lessons? Click here to enter text.
Lesson Plan - 4
Storm At Sea
By Amar Qamar
CRASHING waves... SMASHING seas...
Bringing sailors to their knees.
As they struggle to save their lives
Hoping and praying, help arrives.
The stormy seas as dark as coal,
Preventing the sailors from reaching their goal.
Battered and bruised, but still they fight...
Staring ahead, into the dead of night.
Rocking and rolling as they try to stand...
Hoping against hope, that they soon reach land.
Bleary eyed from lack of sleep.
Down in their cabins, huddled like sheep.
As they're rocking and rolling down beneath
Weary sailors above, resist with gritted teeth.
Hours later, as the storm starts to dissipate,
It leaves a calm tranquil sea in it wake.
The veteran sailors know the battle is over, and they have won...
As contemplate, other storms yet to come...
Source: http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/storm-at-sea#ixzz3jqyQPpcA
Family Friend Poems
Lesson Plan - 6
Identify the Words and Meaning of Metaphors and Similes
Name__________________________
On your own paper, find the simile or metaphor and write it down, identifying whether it
is a simile or metaphor. Write the meaning of the simile or metaphor based on the
context of the sentence.
1. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves.
2. As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, “This class is like a
three-ring circus!”
3. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.
4. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day.
5. I feel like a limp dishrag.
6. Those girls are like two peas in a pod.
7. The fluorescent light was the sun during the test.
8. No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket.
9. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath.
10. Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs