Lesson 5 Thursday L.A.

7JH Poetry 1:25-2:06

October 17 2:06-2:09

OUTCOMES
(GLO’S & SLO’S)

1.1 Discover and Explore

❖ Express and develop understanding

- Extend understanding of ideas and information by finding and exploring oral, print and other media texts on related topics
and themes
❖ Experiment with language and forms
- Discuss and respond to ways that content and forms of oral, print and other media texts interact to influence understanding

1.2 Clarify and Extend

❖ Consider the ideas of others

- Listen and respond constructively to alternative ideas or opinions
❖ Extend understanding
- Talk with others to elaborate ideas, and ask specific questions to seek helpful feedback

2.3 Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques

❖ Experiment with language

- explore surprising and playful uses of language and visuals in popular culture, such as cartoons, animated films and limericks;
explain ways in which imagery and figurative language, such as simile, convey meaning

4.1 Enhance and Improve

❖ Expand knowledge of language

- identify and explain figurative and metaphorical use of language in context
❖ Enhance artistry
experiment with figurative language, illustrations and video effects to create visual images, provide emphasis or express emotion
GUIDING QUESTIONS LEARNING OBJECTIVES RATIONALE ASSESSMENT(S) RESOURCES & MERTIALS

-What is an idiom?
-How can we address
idioms through a
collaborative and creative
lens?
Students will… For Tuesday’s class we Completed Poster iPad cart
took a break from (formative assessment)
-get refreshed on what figurative language and Poster outlines
an idiom is we started our first
Observation and
poem. For today’s class Pencil crayons and
-review implied we are doing a review of Proximity markers
meanings that can be idioms in a fun and
taken from idioms creative way that Tape (to hang the
engages students to posters around the
-work together in pairs collaborate with a room)
to visually represent an partner
idiom Idioms handout

-work together to PowerPoint

identify the implied
meaning of the idiom

-participate in a gallery
walk to observe
everyone’s posters
INTRODUCTION BODY

Attendance 1.Read to (10 minutes)

Agenda: Read to, 2.Housekeeping

Housekeeping, Idioms, -Remind students that if they missed yesterday’s class, they will need to get the notes from a friend in class!
Posters
 3.Idioms
-Hand out the one pager for idioms
-Guide students through the PowerPoint and explain what idioms are using examples
-When we get to the examples section that asks for the meaning of the idiom, have students hold up a 1 or a 2
using their fingers to represent what they think the answer is. Once I reveal the correct answer, have them fill
in the empty boxes on their handout

4.Posters
-Continue through the slides and explain the poster process to them
-Working in pairs students will collaborate to visually represent an idiom and also identify its meaning
(implied)
-Each pair of students will be given a different idiom and they will need to write it at the top of their poster
paper
-They then draw the idiom as best they can in the box below – decorate!!
-Then they have to write down what they think is the meaning behind the idiom – students may use the iPads
to google their idiom to help with the understanding of the idiom.

5.Gallery Walk
-With approximately 15 minutes left in class, ask students to round off their drawings
-Have one person from each pair come and get a piece of tape
-Have students hang up their idioms all around the room
-Allow students time to talk around to each one and see what was written and drawn!

CLOSURE
-Ask students to have a seat and get their opinion on which idiom they thought was the easiest to draw and which one seemed like the
toughest – ask for hands up so this doesn’t turn into a riot
-Allow students time to pack up if they haven’t done so already
REFLECTION