GAME TIME!

• Your team will be will the table immediately in front/behind you.

• You may not switch teams!

• There will be tasty prizes for each round.

• (*The next slide shows the teams)

Trashketball

Figurative Language

ROUND ONE

Rules of Trashketball1. Stay in your seats at all times.2. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the

answer to a question AND3. Write ONE response to the question on a sheet

of paper in pen.4. Correct answers will be displayed after all

questions have been answered.5. For every correct answer, your team will get

the opportunity to shoot a wad of paper into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line.

6. If the shot is made, you get points. The team with the highest number of points wins candy!

7. Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered.

1

He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

2

Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.

3

Can I see you for a second?

4

The sun was beating down on me.

I'd rather take bathswith a man-eating shark,or wrestle a lionalone in the dark,eat spinach and liver,pet ten porcupines,than tackle the homework,my teacher assigns.

5

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and swelling I bear

in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and fearI rise

6

Answers1. Simile

2. Metaphor

3. Understatement

4. Personification

5. Hyperbole

6. Metaphor

Flash Poetry

Figurative Language

ROUND TWO

Table Points• Your table groups will now be working

together to earn points towards winning lunch at the end of each marking periods (including progress reports!)

• You can earn points: – For completing homework – Winning at games – Answering questions – Being prepared – Being on-task – And anything I deem worthy of

• You can lose points: – Talking out of turn – Being off-task – Not following game rules – Not having your homework– Not working during class– points

Rules of Flash Poetry

1. Stay in your seats at all times.2. Each team will have 30-60 seconds to

write an example of the figurative language technique displayed on the board on a slip of paper.

3. All slips will be given to the judge, who will then have 60 seconds to select his/her favorite.

4. The team with the judge’s favorite example will earn five table points.

Personification

Simile

Hyperbole

Understatement

Fill out your worksheet as you listen to the poets

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEO3H5BOlFk

http://www.theguardian.com/education/video/2014/aug/20/spoken-words-hollie-mcnish-children-classroom-video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtnEnEqjk0E

Please Sit with Your Table Group

• Take out your homework for Ms. McIntyre to come around and check.

• Each group will select one example from the homework that they would like to share with the class.

• When groups present their example, they will need to: – Name the type of figurative language

– Read the literal sentence

– Read the figurative sentence

• Table points will be awarded for correct identification

Today We’re Going to Look at Mentor Poets to Determine What Types of Topics are

Often Addressed in Spoken Word

As we discuss today’s poetry I’d like you to think about the following questions, because you will be answering the same questions next class period

for the topic you select.

• What did the poet talk about? • What did he/she have to say about that? • How did the poem relate to his/her life?

Noah St. John

Joaquin Zihuatenejo

Hollie McNish

Shannon Leigh

What Do You Have Something to Say About?

What do you have to say about: Relationships

-Family -Friends (bullying) -People and their pets -Teachers and students-Coaches and athletes

Traditions-Family -Religious -Other

Current World Issues -Stereotypes -Violence -Race (Eric Garner,

Ferguson, Martin)-Illness-Culture/Cultural Clashes-Hunger -Poverty -Health Care-Immigration

What do you have to say about: Hobbies

-Sports -The arts-Other

Memories-With family -With friends -A time/phase in your life

Any of these: -Love-Hate-Good-Bag-Right-Wrong-Can-Can’t-Should-Shouldn’t-Easy-Hard-Gay-Straight-Bi-sexual