Mrs. Deeley's 2nd period class Personification

Mrs. Deeley’s 2nd Period ELA Class Personification Courtesy of http://room19eps.edublogs.org As part of our Figurative Language study, students created a brief imaginative narrative using ‘Personification’. The Little Red Pen, by Janet Stevens, was the... More

Mrs. Deeley’s 2nd Period ELA Class Personification Courtesy of http://room19eps.edublogs.org As part of our Figurative Language study, students created a brief imaginative narrative using ‘Personification’. The Little Red Pen, by Janet Stevens, was the mentor text. Students needed to bring an inanimate object to life in their writing, making that object the main character. This project addressed Standards L4.5 and W4: “Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.” Mrs. Baker, Middleton’s Digital Learning Specialist, worked with our class to create a digital storybook with all of our stories. The students integrated technology into this lesson using laptops to type their stories on and used the online program “Calameo” to create the book. The Corresponding College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standard for Standard SL 4.5 was addressed: “Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and e Less