1. Smart Start
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence* is enough suffering for anyone." - John Ciardi
*Adolescence is the teenage years.
Do you agree with the quote?  Why or why not?  Have there been times in your life when you were frustrated or upset and think that if you had been older or at a different age in life, you would not have been upset of frustrated?  Answer these questions on a piece of notebook paper in at least 4 complete sentences.
You have 5 minutes to complete this task.

2. Procedures Quiz Class Averages
1st period: 71.8%
2nd period: 90.2%
3rd period: 87.45%
5th period: 77.27%
6th period: 78.17%
7th period: 85.85%
**Our goal as a class, should always be to have a class average of 80% or higher.**

3. Announcements Week 1 Vocabulary quiz on Monday, September 8, 2014.
Start studying now!
The quiz will be “fill in the blank” format.

4. Objective
SWBAT define and identify personification, metaphors, allusion, similes, hyperboles, and onomatopoeias.
SWBAT analyze the effect of figurative language in texts.

5. Homework (Due 9/3) Define Week 1 Vocabulary (This is due tomorrow 9/3)
Use your vocabulary handouts and my online page to help you begin studying and defining the words.

6. Figurative Language
Figurative language is creative language that is used to create an effect or a feeling. It is not always meant to be taken literally, but it is used to make our writing more engaging or creative. 

7. Simile
Simile: a simile is a comparison of two unlike things using either the word “like” or the word “as” 
Example:  I am as quick as a cricket. He's as sly as a fox.

8. Metaphor
Metaphor: a metaphor is a comparison like a simile, but it doesn't use the words like or as.  Often poetry has extended metaphors, which is when an entire poem compares something to something else, such as comparing a journey to life.
Examples: 
She was a breath of fresh air in the classroom.
 John is a beast when it comes to football.

9. Hyperbole Hyperbole: An exaggeration that creates a comic effect.
Examples:
The limousine is as long as a football field. 
There were a billion people at the concert.

10. Personification
Personification: gives human-like characteristics to objects or animals.
Examples:
The ocean danced in the moonlight.
The blizzard swallowed the town.

11. Alliteration
Alliteration: occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound
Examples:
Mike’s microphone made much music.
Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand.

12. Allusion
Allusion: A reference to something or someone, usually a literary character.
Example:  
Mr. Jones got the neighborhood kids to do his yard work- just as Tom Sawyer got the kids to paint the fence

13. Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia: when a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound. (Think of comic books: Boom!, Splat! Pop! These are all sounds.)
Examples: 
The race car zoomed past the finish line. 
The dishes fell to the floor with a clatter

14. Guided Practice
With a partner, identify the type of figurative language in each sentence. You have 3 minutes to complete this task.
1. She moved through the room like a cool summer breeze.
2. The house shivered in the cold winter wind.
3. Shade was as sad as a basset hound when she heard the news.
4. She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show
5. The wind sang a song of melancholy as it whistled through the field.
6. Her room was bigger than a castle.
7. Taking standardized tests is torture unless you're prepared.
8. My thoughts are so deep they can be found at the bottom of the ocean.
9. Like a soldier marching into battle, the student body president went to meet with the new principal.
10. The final exam was easier than an alphabet test.

15. Guided Practice (Answers)
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Metaphor/Hyperbole

16. “Say, Mean, Matter” Strategy
“Say”:  What figurative language does the author use or say?
“Mean”:  What does this piece of figurative language mean?
“Matter”: Why is this piece of figurative language important?
**Please list these notes under the “Reading Strategies” section of your notebook.

17. “Say, Mean, Matter” Strategy
Example: She moved through the room like a cool summer breeze.
Say:  The author is using a simile.
Mean: The simile is comparing the way the woman moves across the room to a cool summer breeze.  This means that the woman moves "care free" and gently across the room.
Matter: This piece of figurative language is important because it helps to illustrate how the woman moved across the room  It also helps to create imagery. 

18. Practice
Using the “Say, Mean, Matter” Strategy, work with a partner and analyze the poem below. Write your answers in COMPLETE sentences.
The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared

19. Exit Ticket (on Sticky Notes)
 Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?
A. The wind screamed harshly.
B. The fox ran quickly through the woods, searching for a hiding place.
C. The ocean angrily lifted his waves and beat down upon the sand.
D. My coffee table is happy to be back in his old position in the living room.

20. Exit Ticket (cont.)
2. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor? 3. Taking that test was the easiest thing I've ever done. The sentence above is an example of which literary element? A. Metaphor B. Allusion C. Simile D. Hyperbole