1. Common Core Standard
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.5 Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.

2. Objective: SWBAT identify similes and metaphors and recognize the purpose of them.
Materials:
“Owl Moon” by: Jane Yolen
Writing Journals
Metaphor and Simile worksheet
SmartBoard application ready
Passages written without similes and metaphors from “Owl Moon”

3. Do Now: (3-5 Minutes)
Talk to your partner about some of the things you are doing to your writing. Be prepared to share out.

4. Her hair was as soft as silk. She slept like a baby.
Simile: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two different nouns using like or as.
Examples:
Her hair was as soft as silk. She slept like a baby.
as light as a feather.

5. Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two different nouns without using like or as.
Examples:
His laugh was music to my ears.
Hannah’s mind is a steel trap.
Your room is a pigsty

6. Similes and Metaphors strengthen our Narrative and Poetic writing. . .
Could we use these when telling a story?
How could it make the story better?

7. Tim and Moby Explain It All

8. Similes and Metaphors in Music

9. OWL MOON by: Jane Yolen

10. Exit Slip
identify the difference between similes and metaphors. I will also be able to tell by seeing if the students were able to change the sentence into a simile or metaphor.