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Lesson Construction Template

Introduction and Objective

The sun smiled at me as it rose in the sky. Can the sun really smile at you?
No, not really, but it does create a great image! Once again, we are learning about a type of figurative language that you cannot take literally! This is called personification.

Today's lesson objective is: Students will describe an author’s use of personification in a poem.

Think about this objective. What strategies are you going to use? You have already learned about figurative language. You may want to add this type of figurative language to your notes. Make sure you are close reading for this lesson.

Open your digital notebook and describe any strategies and skills you will use …show more content…
Personification is giving human traits to non-living objects.
Human traits are qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics.
Non-living objects are things, colors, qualities, or ideas.

In the beginning of the lesson, I used an example of personification. The sun smiled at me as it rose in the sky.
What are the human traits used in this example of personification? Smiling! The sun cannot actually smile.
What is the non-living object in this example of personification? The sun. It is not living.

Authors and others use examples of personification all the time. Look at this trailer for Disney/Pixar’s movie Cars.
What is being personified in this trailer?
What human traits do they exhibit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGByijP0Leo#t=59 This trailer and movie are full of examples of personification.
In the movie Cars, all of the different cars have different types of personalities and feel different emotions. Most importantly, they talk. Can cars do that? Definitely not!

Define personification. …show more content…
Now we will look at a poem that has personification in it.

This poem is called “Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room” by Nancy Willard.

“Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,” said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
“Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?”

They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took roots in the carpet where the topaz tortoises run.

Did you find the personification in this poem? This poem is about a bouquet of sunflowers that say they are “weary of weather.” This means that they are tired of the weather- of being outside.

They want to be put in a room with a view. What do you think that means? Did you guess that they want to be by the window? Then they can count the steps of the sun.

So, how did this author use personification?
Sunflowers cannot talk, can they? No. So any dialogue from the sunflowers is an example of personification. Sunflowers also cannot arrange themselves; a human has to do that.

Finally, it says they counted the steps of the sun. Sunflowers cannot count and the sun does not take steps! Even more

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