Lessons tagged with "RL+8.4"

This Common Core reading literature lesson analyzes the impact of allusions in a text. In this lesson, students will read text with a given allusion. Next, they will interpret the allusion by describing the person or event it alludes to (based on prior knowledge or a provided summary), and then explain the connection between the allusion and the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. Familiarity with lesson 7.L.5a Interpret figures of speech (e.g., literary, biblical, and mythological allusions) in context would be helpful. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This reading literature lesson focuses on how to determine the impact of analogies in a text, and see how they are related to metaphors and similes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify two things being compared in a poem, look for words that suggest the comparison, identify the qualities they have in common, and analyze the impact of the analogy.