Grade 8

Characterization

ATLs - Cluster skills: indicators (related strands)

I. Communication skills 

7. Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and teachers

Global Context:

Identities and relationships

IB Learner Profile

Communicators

1. Review simile
 Students make their own similes in teams.
2. Review metaphor
 Students make their own metaphors in teams.
3. Students complete simile or metaphor worksheet
4. Students create a simile or metaphor by choosing cards from two piles of
things to compare.
5. Students add a simile to their Padlet character.
6. Introduce personification.

“Giving an animal or thing human qualities.”

7. Add personification to the Padlet.

8. Introduce Nelson the Ninja Pig story.

Find the following:

Onomatopoeia Simile Metaphor Alliteration

personification
9. How do we know the pig’s colour?
10. How do we know if he is bad tempered?