2. Learners
•Around 20 high school students, evenly divided in gender, multiple learning styles, culturally
diverse
•Already know basic forms of figurative language because people learn that around second
grade.
3. Objective
All students will create their own examples of the figurative language taught with 90% accuracy
by the end of the week after being given examples through lecture, videos clips, and activities.
4. Day by Day
Day 1:General Intro to All
• Webquests
• Facebook poll of what they know about figurative
language
• Youtube video – Paper Slide
Day 2: Synecdoche, Metonymy, Zeugma, &
Anaphora
• Look at the Figurative Language blog as lecture
• Create literal representations through photoshop
Day 3: Euphemism, Irony, & Oxymoron
◦ Contributing to the class wiki
◦ Youtube video- Alanis Morisette Irony
◦ Zello and Twitter Homework
Day 4: Satire & Onomatopoeia
◦ Looking at the poster as a type of lecture notes
◦ Youtube video– videogames and onomatopoeia
◦ Onomatobots
Day 5: Spoonerisms & Mondegreens
◦ Weebly – Spoonerism Stories Site
◦ Misheard Lyrics Video and Misheard Lyrics contest
Evaluation:
Twitter poetry
