Thursday, October 30th, 2014 Standards: Conduct short research; Gather relevant information Target: Scholars will search their own playlists to find examples of figurative language, and write these examples down on giant posters to hang in the hallway.

Activator Figurative language song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1J-4gVswhk Activator

Today in class we're going to be making some big posters with examples of figurative language on them. But I'm not one of those lame-o teachers who thinks that examples like "I have a mountain of laundry at home" are cool examples (that's a lie), I'm one of those awesome teachers that lets you find examples from popular music. On your phones. So, here's what we're going to do! I'll give you the list of the literary devices we've been studying on the board (some of your vocab). Your job is to play with your phone, find lyrics that fit the literary devices, and then go write those lyrics up on the giant poster. Work

Da Rules: -SCHOOL APPROPRIATE!! Don't put up any lyrics with bad words. -Have me check your examples before you put them on the poster :) Your lyrics can be from any song and any genre so long as there are no curse words. Double check with me if you're not sure if a word is a curse word. Cont.

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it? Closing