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Metaphors

This lesson plan is for a 6th grade English class. The objectives are for students to identify metaphors in texts and understand how authors use metaphors. The teacher will display a similes and metaphors chart. Students will sort examples and discuss differences. A YouTube video will provide metaphor examples. Students will analyze metaphors in a poem about a steam shovel. Worksheets will assess understanding and the teacher will take notes on student engagement and questions.

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Metaphors

This lesson plan is for a 6th grade English class. The objectives are for students to identify metaphors in texts and understand how authors use metaphors. The teacher will display a similes and metaphors chart. Students will sort examples and discuss differences. A YouTube video will provide metaphor examples. Students will analyze metaphors in a poem about a steam shovel. Worksheets will assess understanding and the teacher will take notes on student engagement and questions.

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Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 6 Time: 9.10-9.50 Date: 29/5 Students Prior Knowledge:
Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure
Learning Area: English and topic as well as the degree of formality

Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum:


Understand how authors often innovate on text
structures and play with language features to achieve
particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive
purposes and effects (ACELA1518)
o Specific focus of this lesson- Metaphors
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative thinking behaviour Social understanding
competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australias engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)
Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:


Identify metaphors in a text
Understand why authors use metaphors to achieve a particular purpose in a text, and how it improves their
writing

Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:


Metaphors and Similies comparison chart ready to Student with hearing impairment requires
be displayed on Smartboard close seating to the front, and teacher must
Youtube video Examples of Metaphors- Metaphors ensure back is not turned when giving
Examples for Kids & Adults by Busy Bee loaded instruction
and ready to be played on Smart board Student with cognitive disability requires close
Copies of Steam shovel and accompanying seating to the front of the room
questions for every student
Ball (found in small room nextdoor) for lesson
review
LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)
Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:
Anecdotal notes will be kept on:
o On-task behaviour- who was on task/who wasnt
o Which questions did I need to go over with them? Did students ask me the same questions-
indicating I didnt explain something correctly?

Students worksheets will be collected to check their answers and understanding of metaphors

Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant)


Resources/Reference
Time Motivation and Introduction:
s
Simile and Metaphor chart- drag and drop
One at a time, teacher is to ask for volunteers to come up to the Simile and Metaphor
smart-board and drag one of the sentences or phrases into the chart on Smart board.
appropriate column of whether they are a simile or metaphor
Make sure students are placing them in the correct chart as they go-
not only at the end
Once all the phrases or sentences have been placed into the chart
ask students what they notice the difference between similes and
metaphors are

Similes- use like or as, metaphors do not

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):


Inform students that from looking at these examples we can see that
a metaphor is:

Metaphor used to describe something as something else, or compare


two things- these two things are usually very different to one another

Go back to metaphor examples and explain how they each two things
being compared are extremely different. E.g:
o Her hair was a golden flowing river
o The snow was a white blanket
o The ballerina was a swan, gliding across the stage

Play Youtube video Examples of Metaphors- Metaphors Examples


for Kids & Adults by Busy Bee and in pairs students are required to Youtube video
discuss what each metaphor means. Then ask a pair to volunteer to
share their answers with the class. (Pause it for a few seconds whilst
students discuss the meaning of the metaphors.)

Link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrBuD4fuYI

Project steam shovel onto board. Teacher to read the poem Steam Hand out Copies of
Shovel. Ask students what the main metaphor is that the author is Steam shovel and

writing about- what two things is the author comparing? (Steam accompanying
shovel or machinery and Dinosaurs). questions for every
student

Explain to students that Charles Malam is using whats called as an


extended metaphor because he is talking about the same metaphor,
steam shovel and dinosaurs throughout the whole poem, rather than
just one line. (Write extended metaphor on the sheet projected onto
board).

Read the questions with students, and ask them if there are any
questions they wish to go through together

Students are to complete the rest of the working in the remaining time
independently. Teacher is to walk around, observing them work and
behaviour, and answer questions if need be.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)


Teacher to review what students have learnt by passing a ball around
the room, and whoever has the balls has to say something new they
learnt, or a question they still have about this topic. Instruct students
to try and offer different examples to other students.

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)


Students need to have completed the Metaphors sheet by Thursday
(June 1)
o Instruct students grades will be affected if not handed in on
time

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be judged?)
Identify metaphors in a text
Understand why authors use metaphors to achieve a particular
purpose in a text, and how it improves their writing
Anecdotal notes will be kept on:
o On-task behaviour- who was on task/who wasnt
o Which questions did I need to go over with them? Did
students ask me the same questions- indicating I didnt
explain something correctly?
Students worksheets will be collected to check their answers and
understanding of metaphors

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