Lesson Plan

I taught figurative language to my 7th graders. To organize their information we took a blank piece of paper and folded it in half and half again, then length wise into thirds. This created boxed for students to record their information. The sections were labeled: figurative language-definition-examples-practice.
Once student had enough practice and were comfortable with identifying the figurative language and main idea in a variety of poems, we moved on to larger more difficult poems. I was amazed at the poems my students liked. They were more interested in the larger more difficult to understand poems like O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman, The road not taken by Robert Frost, and many other American authors.
Poems
The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
If (Rudyard Kipling)
O Captain! My Captain (Walt Whitman)
The Children’s Hour (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I Am Wunk (Jack Prelutsky)
I, Too, Sing America (Langston Hughes)
I Hear America Singing (Walt Whitman)
We even went on to look at foreign authors. (Australia, Banjo Patterson)
I enjoyed watching how the student brought the poetry to life once they understood the way figurative language works. They did a follow up assessment by writing their own poetry using a variety of figurative language.
I will definitely use this lesson plan again