Need to keep your 6th, 7th, or 8th grade ELA students engaged those last few days before Thanksgiving Break?
Yes! Keep them busy with something meaningful, academic, and related to the themes that go with this time of year: gratitude, thankfulness, autumn, etc.
In this Thanksgiving-themed lesson pack, you will guide students through quick reviews of common figurative language elements like similes, metaphors, personification, etc. That’s what the mini-lesson Power Point contains.
For each type of figurative language review slide, a quote or two follows that students can read, discuss, and analyze in terms of how writers use elements of figurative language to make a point (all themed around Thanksgiving).
From there, an analysis sheet for each quote is provided that asks students to identify the figurative language used in the quote, write about the author’s message, and even practice writing their own quote in the style of the original one!
You can grab my 10 Thanksgiving-themed figurative language activities below, complete with an easy-to-use Power Point mini-lesson, student analysis sheets . . . and stop lesson planning yourself to death!
I mean, you’ve got family time coming up and no energy to lose on those last couple of days in class!
Here’s what you get (and yes, it’s all free, LOL!):
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A lesson plan page with the objective, the standards, the procedures– DONE!
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A colorful Power Point mini-lesson that reviews specific elements of figurative language followed by quotes about gratitude, thankfulness, and autumn (perfect for November!). There are 10 quotes for students to analyze and write about!
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10 activity sheets for students to go deeper with how and why the author of quote uses figurative language to convey his or her message.
There are a few different ways you could use this stuff!
Option A
You could easily split the 10 quotes apart into short station activities where different stations have different quotes to work with.
Option B
You could teach just one concept from the mini-lesson Power Point per day for a few days leading up to Thanksgiving break. Each concept would be followed by the accompanying analysis sheet.
Option C
You could spend a class period going through the mini-lesson Power Point, stopping after each little figurative language review slide and letting students work collaboratively on the handout that goes with it.
