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Metaphors
Kind of Activity:
Group Work
Objective:
To examine Plath’s use of metaphors and think about how metaphors can communicate information
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1.D
Structure:
Each student should pick one of the five poems from today’s reading. For their poem, they should write a two-column list of every metaphor in their poem, with the two columns representing the objects that are being compared to one another in the metaphor. Students will then split into five groups, working with the other students who analyzed the same poem. Groups will go over their lists until they are sure...
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