This lesson teaches 7th and 8th grade language arts students about figurative language through an interactive PowerPoint presentation. The teacher will define different types of figurative language like similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia and alliteration using examples. Students will participate by sorting phrases, writing examples on the SmartBoard, and completing fill-in-the-blank exercises. The lesson supports universal design through multiple means of presentation, engagement, and self-paced learning.

1. Figurative Language
Lesson
Sarah Huffman
EDP 279

2. Target Learners
 The target learners for this lesson are Language Arts
students in 7th and 8th grade.
 The purpose of this lesson is to teach the target
learners about figurative language by going through the
different types of figurative language and giving
definitions and examples for each, in addition to
pictures and exercises to help target learners
remember them.

3. Overview of How to Use the
Resources
 This lesson would be set up as an interactive lecture. All
students are seated in desks as the teacher begins clicking
through the Smart Exchange PowerPoint on the large
SmartBoard located at the front of the classroom.
 The teacher will use the “magic pen” to underline important
key words in these definitions and talk about each of them.
 After learning about the difference between similes and
metaphors from the slides, an interactive slide would come
up prompting the class to sort through the similes and
metaphors. The teacher asks a volunteer to come up, call on
classmates for answers, and sort through the examples on
the SmartBoard.

4. Overview
 Next the teacher would use the following few slides to teach
the class the difference between onomatopoeia and
alliteration. Similar to the last interactive part of the
slideshow, a student would be called up to call on
classmates and sort through the phrases.
 Next the teacher would explain what a hyperbole. The
following slide is mostly blank, and asks that hyperboles be
written out. At this point, any students may come to the
SmartBoard and write a hyperbole using the digital Smart
Pens. Afterwards, each student reads his or hers out loud to
the class.

5. Overview
 Next the teacher would explain personification using the
following slide. Afterwards, a fill-in-the-blank slide comes up
related to personification.
 Each student is handed a piece of paper with the same fill-
in-the-blank sentences. Each student fills out their own
paper, and then the teacher calls on individuals to fill in one
of the questions on the Smartboard. The student then reads
the completed sentence out loud to the class.
 The final slide is an interactive slide that reviews the entire
lesson. Again, the teacher calls on individuals to come to the
front and complete 1 or 2 questions until the entire activity
on that slide has been completed.

6. Overview
 Finally, the teacher would pull up a Word Document
that has been converted to be able to be drawn on and
marked up on the smart board. This Word Document
would have a summary of what they learned in the
lesson, as well as a homework assignment. The
teacher would go over the information on the Word
Document, marking it up, and highlighted important
information about the summary and homework
assignment.
 *The SmartBoard eraser may be used by the teacher or
students at any time during the lesson to correct
mistakes or start over.

7. How This Lesson Supports
Universal Design
 This lesson supports universal design because it uses
multiple ways of presenting information.
 Students may read the words on the screen.
 The words on the screen are read aloud.
 This lesson calls for multiple means of engagement.
 Students may fill in their own answers on the worksheet
provided.
 Students are able to get up and physically interact with
the lesson by writing on the SmartBoard.

8. Universal Design
 This lesson allows for the teacher and the class to learn
at the pace needed. The PowerPoint has no time limit.
 This does not require physical effort, but for students
who feel the need to get up and physically move to
interact with the lesson, this option is available.
 This PowerPoint in particular is well-organized and the
information is presented in a simple way.

9. Web Links
 http://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html?q=&subjec
t=English+Language+Arts&grade=Grade+9&region=en
_US
 http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=c63d08
58-6987-4025-90df-b84b4eef1cd0
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWNCHG-
xB9o&feature=related
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLdHbtuCIyY&featur
e=related