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    Lesson Plan: Personification: Time: 45 Minutes Objectives

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    This lesson plan introduces students to the concept of personification through a 45 minute lesson. It begins with a warm up activity where students practice personifying animals. They then learn the definition of personification and see examples. Students work together to personify a nature element on the board. Finally, students each personify their own nature element by filling out a character web worksheet. The lesson ends with time for students to share their personified characters.

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    Lesson Plan: Personification

    Time: 45 minutes
    Objectives: 
    Students will be able to explain the term "personification," and the different ways 
    that one can personify a non­human thing. 
    Students will be able to characterize non­human things and give them human 
    personality traits, interests and abilities. 
    Materials needed: "Character web" worksheet, "Help with personifying" worksheet, 
    printed examples of recognizable, personified characters. 
    Optional: Personification Powerpoint presentation
    Note: This lesson plan was written to follow the lesson on "Descriptive Language." 
    Modifications may be necessary if you choose not to teach the other one first.

    Warm Up Bring up the animal that you created during the Descriptive 
    7 minutes Language activity. Tell them the animal has a name, and that its 
    name is ______. Then tell them more information about the animal's 
    likes and dislikes.

    For example, the jabberwocky I made got the name Harold. He likes 
    math, he’s very forgetful, and he’s best friends with a toucan named 
    Tito. He’s also really nice to jabberwockies who are littler than him.

    Ask students to suggest their own traits for Harold. Then, have them 
    take out the animals they created during the Descriptive Language 
    lesson, and add three facts about that animal. Afterward, they can 
    share with the person next to them. 

    Information Explain that what we just did is called "personification." Spell the 
    8 minutes word and practice pronouncing it. Write on the board:

    "Personification is when you give a person's emotions, abilities, or 
    appearance to something that isn’t a person." Have someone read 
    aloud and translate if necessary. 

    Show them examples from familiar Disney movies or cartoons (for 
    example: Mufasa from The Lion King, Cogsworth from Beauty and 
    the Beast, Patrick from Spongebob, etc.). Students should identify 
    characters and talk about how they are personified (Ex. Mufasa can 
    talk, he's king, Patrick wears pants, etc.)

    See if students can think of other examples of characters that are 
    personified. 

    For older level students: Give them about 10 or so vocabulary words 
    relating to personality. It's up to you which ones you use. Look at the 
    "Help with Personifying" sheet for suggestions. 
    Practice Draw the Character Web on the board. For the center box, have 
    10 minutes students suggest something that is found in nature but that isn't an 
    animal (cloud, river, tree, mountain, waterfall, cactus, etc.). Give it a 
    name. Then work together with class suggestions to finish filling in 
    the Character Web. Leave the bottom bubble blank.

    When you're done, read the results out loud to the class and use 
    complete sentences. It's usually pretty funny.

    Application Now it's students' turn to personify something themselves! Hand out 
    15 minutes the "Character Web" worksheet, along with "Help with 
    Personification." Each student should have a Character Web but you 
    only need one Help with Personification per three or four students ­­ 
    they can share. 

    Tell students to think of something in nature ­­ it can be an animal, a 
    plant, or something like a rock or a river ­­ and then personify it! 
    Give it a best friend, a personality, like we just did. There is one 
    bubble that is blank. Tell students not to fill it in ­­ in 10 minutes, 
    you will tell them what that bubble is for. When they're done filling 
    in all the bubbles, they should write everything out in complete 
    sentences on the space below.

    In 10 minutes, when students have a personality figured out, and 
    maybe some hobbies, tell students to think about what their nature 
    element would say if it could talk to humans. That's what they should 
    write in the last bubble. 

    Conclusion If students finish quickly and there is time, have two or three 
    5 minutes students share their personified nature element with the rest of the 
    class. 

    If there isn't time, tell them they can finish their writing at home, and 
    present at the start of next class. 

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