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\nAbigail Adams, the Writer: “My pen is always freer than my tongue.”\n

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\nSixteen lessons from the Massachusetts History Society comprise the “Abigail Adams, the Writer: ‘My pen is always freer than my tongue’” unit. Each lesson has scholars examining Adams’ letters and diaries to gain an understanding of what...\n
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\nBeyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice\n

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\nThe lessons in the \"Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice\" unit module introduce young historians to four African-American women who made significant contributions to the modern civil rights movement....\n
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\nFigures of Speech Slide Show\n

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\nThis slide show on figures of speech includes definitions, images, and examples from real texts for several common terms: metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, irony, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and imagery. The presentation is...\n
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\nFigures of Speech: Quiz 2\n

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\nHyperbole, simile, metaphor, and personification are spotlighted on an online/interactive quiz. Test takers read short passages and then identify the figures of speech used.\n
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\nFigures of Speech\n

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\nGive your learners quick definitions of simile, metaphor, and analogy. As the first slide in this PowerPoint suggests, you can use the presentation as a warm-up and have scholars record the words and their meanings in a Literary Terms...\n
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\nFigures of Speech Quotes and Examples\n

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\nProviding several examples of figures of speech, such as irony, paradox, and personification, this presentation could complement your lecture on pragmatic humor or humor in writing. Examples from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in...\n
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\nFlora and Fauna as Figures of Speech\n

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\nWhat a lovely way to incorporate artwork into your language arts instructional activity. View artwork in illustrated manuscript pages, depicting insects, animals, plants, flowers, and ornate writing in the Getty Museum. Practice using...\n
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\nLet's Focus on Idioms\n

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\nGet online and explore idioms. Your class will use the Internet to locate, choose, and illustrate their favorite idioms. They make a class PowerPoint with illustrations for their idioms and explain the meaning of each. A great way to...\n
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\nFigures of Speech Presentation\n

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\nIf used as part of an exploration of figures of speech, this short presentation defining similes, metaphors, and analogies could be used as a review tool in an English classroom. A teacher could augment this resource with more examples...\n
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\nReading the Play\n

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\nDo figures of speech enhance a play or story? In small groups, learners locate and describe figures of speech they find while reading a reader's theater play. After making predictions, they describe how the figures of speech make the...\n
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\nPoetry in Depth\n

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\nScholars use technology to explore poetry and its related elements, such as theme, figures of speech, and other literary devices. They complete four poetry projects including a poem analysis with a concept web, an interactive poem...\n
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\nEdward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense\n

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\nIntroduce your class to the delights of nonsense poetry and explore literary devices with the writing of Edward Lear. Learners identify rhyme and meter as well as figures of speech, alliteration, and onomatopoeia in \"The Owl and the...\n
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\nSecond and third graders explore similes and metaphors. They complete six sentences by choosing the correct word to complete the sentence.\n
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\nCommon Idioms 5\n

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\nIf you have been analyzing idioms, you can assess your learners' grasp of their figurative meanings with this 10-question matching exercise. Or you could give the sheet to groups to foster discussion about literal versus figurative...\n
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\nThe Bernstein Bear's Trouble with Money: Financial and Academic Literacy\n

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\nWhat do figures of speech have to do with financial literacy? Take an interdisciplinary look at The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money to find out. Young analysts read about the cubs' spendthrift ways and how Mama and Papa Bear...\n
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\nHere is a simple list of 21 idioms for which learners are supposed to write the figurative meanings. I'd extend it to include either drawing pictures or group discussions to build meaning rather than just assigning it as individual work.\n
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\nIdiom Quizzes - Animals\n

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\nFollowing an exhaustive list of animal idioms, metaphors, and similes (categorized by animal), an online interactive quiz checks reader facility with their use. In each of 20 questions, a sentence has a definition for one expression in...\n
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\nAnimal Idioms\n

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\nA six question, multiple choice, on-line interactive exercise asks learners to identify the meaning of animal idioms. A little bird told me the answers can be accessed with a click of a button.\n
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\nGo Free or Die: Figurative Language\n

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\nFigures of speech, sensory details, and academic language are all targeted while reading Chapter Two of J. Ferris’ Go Free or Die. First, learners engage in an exercise to practice describing with detail. Then, partners use a...\n
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\nReading Poetry\n

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\nPresent your class with an overview of poetry-related information. The slides are clearly organized by topic, starting with reading poetry, ending with myths, and touching on everything from the five senses to open and closed forms of...\n
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\nHow do you react if you're \"hot-blooded?\" What happens when you engage in a \"wild  goose chase?\" And what are \"salad days?\" Use this worksheet and the online Visual Thesaurus to answer these questions and more. Based on...\n
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\nHyperbole and Idiom\n

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\nSeventh graders use context clues to determine the figurative meaning of idioms and hyperboles. They practice writing idioms and hyperboles in sentences about real life situations around them. This lesson is a good way to improve variety...\n
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\nKnowledge of Idioms\n

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\nWhat is an idiom, and why is it necessary that we know and understand them? This brief PowerPoint helps answer these questions by looking at examples and offering a strategy for reading new text that might contain an idiom. The final...\n
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\nIdioms in Everyday Language\n

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\nStudents describe idioms and their use in everyday language. They describe the difference between literal and idiomatic meanings. In groups, students use iPhoto to create books that explain and illustrate a variety of idioms describing...\n
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