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Duration: 90 minutes

Assessments: Student discussions, Student writing

 

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IN-CLASS:
1. Do Now: Describe a time when you risked your own safety to help someone else. Why did you decide to do this? Would you have done this for a complete stranger?
2. Read/Discuss pages 45-52 of Night together
3. Small Group Activity: Searching for Metaphor in Night

Details:

1. Show definitions for metaphor and review the concept and purpose of metaphor in a literary text.

A METAPHOR:
* Establishes a relationship between two things but leaves it up to your imagination to 'see' it.
* Is a direct comparison of two unlike things not using like or as (that is what a simile uses).
* Examples:
o "My love is like a red, red rose" is a simile.
o "You are a tulip" is a metaphor.
o "Death lies on her, like an untimely frost," is a simile.
o "Death lies on her, an untimely frost," is a metaphor.
o "You are my sunshine" : ???????

2. SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: 'Searching for Metaphors in Night' (20 minutes)
a. Complete the Metaphor Analyis Handout.
b. Select a passage you've included in your quote journal (try to find one that has a metaphor in it!). Explain to your group why you selected the particular passage. Pay special attention to the style of the passage, the message, and the importance of the passage to understanding the author's message. (10 minutes)
3. Create an image that is a metaphor for your passage.



HOMEWORK DUE NEXT CLASS:
1. Read pages 52-62 of Night
2. Write four metaphors for the Holocaust, an idea or theme you have encountered in Night or events you have 'witnessed' through reading Night. (These can be from anywhere in the novel)

Metaphor Analysis
This is the Metaphor Analysis Handout for the Activity....
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