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Afrolatino Poetry + Figurative Language & Macaronic Language
Afrolatino Poetry + Figurative Language & Macaronic Language
Katherine Ocampo-Mosquera, Afrolatinizamos Cohort 2023
Objectives and Standards
Objective:
Students will be able to identify figurative language & macaronic language in poetry.
Class/Subject/Content:
High School Beginning of the Year Unit (English Language Arts)
English Language Arts Standards: (Based on New York State)
Standard 5:
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
Multilingual Learner Standards:
NYSESLAT Target of Measurement: Listening .9–12.1: Students can identify words, phrases, or sentences that signal important aspects of individuals or events, claims or counterclaims, evidence, multiple points of view, rhetorical devices, and/or the message or theme in grade-level spoken discourse.
NYSESLAT Target of Measurement: Reading .9–12.1: Students can identify words, phrases, or sentences that signal important aspects of individuals or events, claims or counterclaims, evidence, multiple points of view, rhetorical devices, and/or the message or theme in grade-level spoken discourse.
Lesson 4: Figurative Language & Macaronic Language
Topic/Unit:
Identity #1: How does race impact Identity?
Do Now:
Students will answer this question in their notes: What is figurative language & macaronic language in poetry? Think about:
Simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, hyperbole, irony, imagery.
I Do:
Mini Lesson #4: Identifying the figurative language and macaronic language in poetry mini lesson. Mini lesson includes sound devices: Simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, hyperbole, irony, imagery. Slideshow.
Introducing the feature poet, and exploring sound devices:
Alan Pelaez Lopez: “the afterlife of illegality”
We Do:
Turn & Talk: What is the macaronic language part of this poem?
Collaboration:
Group Work: In groups, students will use the poem: “the afterlife of illegality” and find examples of simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, hyperbole, irony, and imagery.
You Do:
Exit Ticket: Can you find an additional example of simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, hyperbole, irony in the poem “the afterlife of illegality” by Alan Pelaez Lopez?
Differentiation:
Visual: Mini Lesson Video.
Verbal/Auditory: Audio version of the Poems.
Organizational: Mini Lesson about figurative language.
Metacognitive: Collaboration, and Individual work: Discussing and analyzing lines of the poem “the afterlife of illegality” by Alan Pelaez Lopez?
Kinesthetic: N/A
Assessment
Exit Ticket: Can you find an additional example of simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, hyperbole, irony, and imagery in the poem “the afterlife of illegality” by Alan Pelaez Lopez?
Ideal Questions:
What is a simile?
What is a metaphor?
What is personification?
What is an idiom?
What is a hyperbole?
What is irony?
What is imagery?
Anticipated misunderstandings/misconceptions: Students can get confused with many types of figurative languages, and this lesson focuses on 7 types that are common in most poetry.
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