Figurative Language Project

Happy Friday Y'all!

Open your Block 2: Week 1 Bell Work Journal and do the Friday slide.

Turn in when you are done!

Multiple Choice

Which "I Can" statement are we currently working on?

• I can find figurative language and analyze how it affects the meaning of a text by analyzing various texts.

• I can determine the main idea of a text.

• I can distinguish between different text structures and analyze the impact they have on a text.

Figurative Language Song Project

We are going to begin our figurative language analysis through music project today. You need the google doc with the song lyrics you found for homework open throughout the day.

Poll

How are you feeling about this project?

• Great!

• Okay

• Not Great

• Completely Confused

To begin:

• Open your google doc with lyrics if it is not open yet.

• Read through the lyrics once without making any highlights.

• Read through the lyrics a second time with figurative language definitions open to reference and help you find it all.

• Highlight all pieces of figurative language.

Fig Lang Analysis:

• Create the next page on your google doc

• Title it, "Types of Figurative Language"

• Copy and paste each individual piece of figurative language

• Say what each piece of figurative language is

• Explain how the figurative language is used in that section

Paragraph Reflection

• Should have an introduction sentence, body (detail) sentences, and a conclusion sentence

• Discuss the impact of the figurative language used in this song

• Discuss how the song would be different if there was NO figurative language

Open Ended

Do you have any questions?

Visual

must be original, thoughtful, and showing significant effort. It may be done digitally or physically.

You can do a drawing, painting, digital drawing, music video, collage, anything that interests you, just check with me to make sure it's okay!