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Visiting Planet Uriel By Kim Bearden Cofounder, Executive Director, and ELA Teacher The Ron Clark Academy GOAL: The students will be able to write poetry about planet Uriel that effectively incorporates figurative language and imagery. TIME: 2 class periods MATERIALS: Borrowed plants and forest sound effects. Note: I asked a local nursery if I could borrow plants for 24 hours, and they allowed me to do so at no cost! Artificial Christmas trees can also be used to create the same effect. If you do not wish to transform your classroom, consider taking your students outside to sit on the grass under some real trees. STEPS: DAY 1 1. Teach students the definitions of similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery. The attached chart contains simple chants to help your students remember them. 2. Ask students to identify examples of Madeline L’Engle’s use of figurative language and imagery in the text of A Wrinkle in Time. Share and discuss. DAY 2 1. Transport students to planet Uriel. Explain that in A Wrinkle in Time, Mrs. Whatsit has difficulty describing Uriel because it is too beautiful for words. Therefore, they must help her by using figurative language. 2. Ask students to complete the attached chart by creating their own similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia. As they work on each section, stop to discuss and share some of the students’ examples. 3. Next, ask students to brainstorm everything that they see, feel, hear, touch, taste and smell. 4. Finally, show the students how to incorporate all of these elements into poem of their own. Explain that they do not have to use everything that they brainstormed, and they do not have to go in the order of the categories on their charts. If your students have not written poetry before, write a poem together as a class first; then have students try their own. Here is a sample you can use to show your students:
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Visiting Planet UrielBy Kim BeardenCofounder, Executive Director, and ELA TeacherThe Ron Clark Academy
GOAL: The students will be able to write poetry about planet Uriel that effectively incorporates figurative language and imagery.
TIME: 2 class periods
MATERIALS: Borrowed plants and forest sound effects.
Note: I asked a local nursery if I could borrow plants for 24 hours, and they allowed me to do so at no cost! Artificial Christmas trees can also be used to create the same effect. If you do not wish to transform your classroom, consider taking your students outside to sit on the grass under some real trees.
STEPS:
DAY 11. Teach students the definitions of similes, metaphors, personification,
alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery. The attached chart contains simple chants to help your students remember them.
2. Ask students to identify examples of Madeline L’Engle’s use of figurative language and imagery in the text of A Wrinkle in Time. Share and discuss.
DAY 21. Transport students to planet Uriel. Explain that in A Wrinkle in Time, Mrs.
Whatsit has difficulty describing Uriel because it is too beautiful for words. Therefore, they must help her by using figurative language.
2. Ask students to complete the attached chart by creating their own similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia. As they work on each section, stop to discuss and share some of the students’ examples.
3. Next, ask students to brainstorm everything that they see, feel, hear, touch, taste and smell.
4. Finally, show the students how to incorporate all of these elements into poem of their own. Explain that they do not have to use everything that they brainstormed, and they do not have to go in the order of the categories on their charts. If your students have not written poetry before, write a poem together as a class first; then have students try their own. Here is a sample you can use to show your students:
Visiting Planet UrielBy Kim BeardenCofounder, Executive Director, and ELA TeacherThe Ron Clark Academy
URIEL
Whoosh!
The white winged woman whisks us away
To a land alive with unimaginable beauty where
Words are fought for; struggling to capture
The essence of perfection
Bounteous blossoms dance across the emerald carpet
Their fragrance washes over us
Like precious perfume.
The cool dampness glistens on my skin;
It sparkles like clear jewels adorning my cheeks—
The freshness fills my lungs;
I feel alive.
Visiting Planet UrielBy Kim BeardenCofounder, Executive Director, and ELA TeacherThe Ron Clark Academy
Visiting Planet UrielBy Kim BeardenCofounder, Executive Director, and ELA TeacherThe Ron Clark Academy
Visiting Planet UrielBy Kim BeardenCofounder, Executive Director, and ELA TeacherThe Ron Clark Academy
