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I selected the book, Out of the Dust to create my video over. This book is age appropriate as the main character is 13 years old, the same age or close to the same age as my middle school students. The other resource teacher and I teach an 8th grade reading class that switches half a year. The class has to incorporate history-based texts as the students are pulled from their history class a semester and added into our reading class. This truly is a benefit for these kids as reading, especially non-fiction reading, is a struggle for majority of the students. Out of the Dust is written in a poetry format incorporating stanzas instead of paragraphs. There are breaks between stanzas and some of the lines only have 3-4 words. This format makes the book bearable to read for my students and not so overwhelming. There are unexpected events in the story that bring you in, directing your attention. Because this story is written in a poetry format it includes a ton of figurative language. (Simile, Metaphor - a really big metaphor throughout the entire story, Personification, Alliteration, Repetition, Onomatopoeia, Idioms, and Hyperboles) Learning definitions and examples before hand help to explain the story as well as understand it.
Standards:
7.1.1 - Identify and understand idioms and comparisons - such as analogies, metaphors, and similes - in prose and poetry
7.3.7 - Explain the effects of common literacy devices, such as symbolism, imagery, and metaphor in a variety of fictional texts.
7.5.6 - Use varied word choices to make writing more interesting and more precise.
8.1.1 - Analyze idioms an comparisons - such as analogies, metaphors, and similes - infer the literal and figurative meanings of phrases.
8.5.6 - Write using precise word choices to make writing more interesting and exact.
Activities:
- Writing down examples of figurative language terms from the text in notes
- Practicing writing poems using figurative language incorporating symbolism of seasons and colors
- Creating a narrative poem from a famous picture during the Dust Bowl - using figurative language and facts from the Dust Bowl.
I like how you created your video from a students perspective rather than the teachers! I liked this format because it didn't use my voice instead the voices were computer genterated. Sometimes I think students need to hear someone else's voice instead of mine!
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