Standard 3- 'The competent teacher plans and designs instruction based on content area knowledge, diverse student characteristics, student performance data, curriculum goals, and the community context. The teacher plans for ongoing student growth and achievement.' In my EDUC380 class (Methods for General Educators) during the Fall of my Senior year, I create a unit plan about figurative language using the Understanding by Design (UbD) curriculum-planning framework.
SINCE HANNAH MOVED AWAY Read the poem. Identify an example of each figurative language term on the chart.
UbD is a method of backwards design in which the student learning outcomes, goals, and big ideas are considered and planned before assessment and before learning activities. By designing curriculum in this way, you see the end goal from the beginning and continually focus on it throughout the planning process of the rest of the unit. This unit of figurative language is written for students at the sixth-grade level. Student in this unit will learn about the specific types of figurative language such as metaphors, similes, hyperboles, personification, onomatopoeias, and alliteration. In groups, students will take ownership of one of these types of figurative language types and guide the rest of the class in learning about figurative language. Students will not only learn how to recognize and identify figurative language in a text when reading, but they will also be equipped to apply it into writing of their own, communicating their creativity through it. Illinois Professional Teaching Standard 3A states, “The competent teacher understands the Illinois Learning Standards, curriculum development process, content, learning theory, assessment, and student development and knows how to incorporate this knowledge in planning differentiated instruction.” All of the things that were just listed were essential in Understanding by Design process.
As can be seen on the Established goals page, the unit integrates numerous Illinois Learning Standards, showing evidence of understanding these learning standards. Developing the process, content, learning theory, assessment, and student development are also evident through UbD, especially during Stage 1, which focusses on the Big Ideas, Established Goals, Essential Questions, and Acquisition. I learned so much through this process of planning a unit with UbD. First of all, I learned that planning takes A LOT of time, and that it should be done at different times, not all at once so that you have time to give more purposeful and intentional thought to return back to certain aspects. I also learned how important it was to always keep your central goal and purpose in mind throughout the planning process.
Even though there are so many different parts, there is one thing tying it all together. Going off of that, I learned just how many things there are to take into account when planning curriculum, and so many different things to think about when it comes to student learning. Overall, I was reminded how much fun figurative language is, and grew in my confidence as a future education. All of these lessons as well as this unit plan, are something that I can take with me into my future classroom.
Fig-ur-a-tive lan-guage Don't Rain on My Parade noun sim-i-le noun al-lu-sion noun al-lit-er-a-tion noun hy-per-bo-le noun im-age-ry noun tone adjective mood Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl Life is not candy, and the sun is not butter. Life can be sweet, but not that sweet.
'Life's candy, and the sun's a ball of butter.' Met-a-phor noun a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. At the Ballet Kelly Bishop, Kay Cole, Nancy Lane, A Chorus Line 'To the voice like a metronome.' She is not actually a metronome, but she always followed the voice. Stop at 0:18 Start at 1:20 Stop at 1:31 an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. Defying Gravity Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked 'Nobody in all of Oz, no Wizard that there is or was.'
She is making a reference to the people and Wizard of Oz, in the movie The Wizard of Oz, who is also the Wizard in Wicked (and something else, but I won't be responsible for spoilers). Start 5:22 Stop 5:29 the occurance of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words Defying Gravity Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked 'It's time to try.' All of the last three letters have the 't' at the beginning. Start 1:58 Stop 2:05 exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Defying Gravity Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked 'Tell them how I am defying gravity.' She's not actually defying gravity, but she's rising above and going after her dreams. Start 5:05 Stop 5:12 visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. I Think I'm Gonna Like it Here Ann Reinking, Aileen Quinn, Annie 'The swimming pool is down the stairs.' 'Inside the house? 'The tennis court is in the rear.'
Fig. Language Hannah On Flowvelland
' We now know, because of the description, that the swimming pool is downstairs, and is also inside, as well as that the tennis court is in the rear. They're describing the house.
Start 1:24 Stop 1:34 the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. Don't Rain on My Parade Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl 'But whether I'm the rose of sheer perfection, a freckle on the nose of life's complexion, the cinder or the shiny apple of it's eye, I gotta fly once, I gotta try once. Only can die once, right, sir? She's saying that whether she's going to go after her dreams, because she's only got one life to live.
Her tone is ambitious and driven. Start 0:45 Stop 1:04 inducing or suggestive of a particular feeling or state of mind. Don't Rain on My Parade Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl The song is in a Major key, specifically A Major.
Major keys are designed to be happier, opposed to the Minor keys, but the notes and the march style make the mood positive. Noun language that uses words or expressions with meanings that is different from the literal interpretation. Figurative Language by Hannah McKean.