This is an exciting and engaging lesson/set of tasks aiming to build students’ skills at using personification and oxymorons in their writing . It was taught during an observation lesson where the teacher received an Outstanding judgement.
Students learn to:
- Define and give examples of what personification and oxymorons are;
- Identify personification and oxymorons in fun and interesting examples;
- Analyse what makes them effective;
- Create their own personification and oxymorons using step-by-step advice;
- Peer assess using a clear and succinct success criteria.
It comes complete with:
- Engaging and visual PowerPoint to guide students (and teacher!) through the lesson;
- Colourful and thought-provoking two-part worksheet for the two main create tasks;
- Lesson plan/ teacher guidance sheet, which goes through the lesson step-by-step;
All pictures are licensed for commercial use, and image authors cited on the final slide.
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This was a fun lesson. The images and explanations are clear and I was able to easily adapt the two creative tasks at the end to suit my Year 8 mixed ability class.
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