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Essential
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PA/Common
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Taxonomy
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Miss Gilles
Poetry
11
Daily Plan- 15 minutes
Analyzing relationships and effectiveness of literary
elements is imperative to understanding an authors
point and their literary merit.
What are literary devices?
How do literary devices enhance a piece of literature?
Are literary devices necessary for something to contain
literary merit?
1.3.11.C: Analyze the relationships, use, and
effectiveness of literary elements (characterization,
setting, plot, theme, point of view, tone, mood,
foreshadowing, irony, and style) used by one or more
authors in similar genres.
1.3.11.D: Analyze the effectiveness, in terms of
literary quality, of the authors use of literary devices,
(e.g., personification, simile, alliteration,
symbolism, metaphor, hyperbole, imagery,
allusion, satire, foreshadowing, flashback, irony) in
various genres.
Students will be able to find in a given text and write
definitions for 7/7 literary elements.

Informal Formative: Q&A, Observation

Formal Formative: Filling out the definitions for the
literary devices we cover, circling each literary device
they find and writing the name of it beside in their
given text
The ISTE Standard involved would be the critical
thinking, problem solving, and decision making
standard.

Accommodations vary as dependent on the student:

written works may be supplemented as well.

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Procedures
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This is supposed to be more of a review of the literary devices

that they should have gone over in previous English classes. It
should not be brand new information to them; if it is we will
simply go over the lesson more slowly. The students will first
be introduced to the literary devices I expect them to know,
then will be asked later in the lesson to find them in a specific
work. For the purpose of this lesson, we will be using The
Raven. After the lesson is over, the students should feel
comfortable using the literary devices and now have a
definition sheet in their own words they can turn to if they are
unsure in the future.

Introduction

Activating Prior Knowledge

How many of you know what a literary device is? (I
expect to see most, if not all hands)
How many of you feel comfortable defining what a
literary device is? Dont fret, if youre unsure we will go
over the definition for it today, along with specific
definitions for each literary device we cover.
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Before we go over the definitions, however, I want to
check what you know. Each person, I will randomly
select two literary devices that you will write a tentative
definition for. Dont be afraid to be incorrect, its all a
part of growing with language!
Matchups of definitions: 1st person- alliteration, simile.
2nd person- metaphor, personification. 3rd persononomatopoeia, assonance. 4th person- symbolism,
alliteration. 5th person- simile, metaphor. (And so on
depending on class size, using the same 7 devices)
After they have their definitions down on paper, then
they will read their definitions out loud to the rest of the
class on cold-calling or volunteering.
Big Idea Statement
Today, we are going to look at what exactly are the
definitions for some of the literary devices that we will
be looking at, so that once we analyze a text we are able
to see the use or effectiveness of the literary devices.
Essential Questions Statement
What are literary devices?
How do literary devices enhance a piece of literature?
Are literary devices necessary for something to contain
literary merit?
Objective Statement
Our objective for this class is to be able to define
alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification,

Explicit
Instructions

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Procedure

onomatopoeia, assonance, and symbolism.

Transition
All transitions will simply involve getting out paper/pen
to take notes or do activities
Key Vocabulary
Literary Device
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Symbolism
PreAssessment of Students
Q & A at the beginning of the lesson
Modeling of the Concept
Now that you we have gone over the definitions that you
gave, Im going to give you my definition for them. Take
notes on each, we will be using these again. Proceed to
define each of the eight words (listed above in key
vocabulary) on the board for the students to copy down.
Guiding the Practice
Now, were going to look at a small excerpt of The
Raven. I want you to pick out as many literary devices
as you can find, and label them for which they are. Ill be
walking around to check your understanding, and to
help you if you need assistance or have questions.
Providing the Independent Practice
Allow them to find the literary devices.
Transition
N/A
The Raven
Whiteboard
Pen/Paper

Reading
Materials
Technology
Equipment
Supplies
Evaluation of
Formal Evaluation
the
Formal Formative- the definitions paper as well as that
Learning/Master
they find all of the literary devices from The Raven.
y of the
Informal Evaluation
Concept
Q&A
Observation
Closure
Summary & Review of the Learning
Who feels confident in these literary devices? Who
thinks that they still have any questions?
Ill collect your The Raven sheets and grade them, you
may keep the definitions worksheets to study and look
at.

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Self-reflection

Homework/Assignments
N/A