Explain what you did this weekend. Is it possible to write your description of your weekend as a poem? If so, create a poem in the spaces provided on your journal sheet. If not, create a descriptive paragraph.

Setting the Tone: Journal WritingSetting the Tone: Journal Writing

Purpose

What are you learning? – Identify extended metaphor

Why are you learning this? – To understand how to analyze a poem for

metaphors and explain the comparison throughout the poem.

Read the paragraph and find the corrections.

(1) In may 1804, thirty-three Americans left St. Louis, Missouri. (2) There goal was to travel west to the Pacific Ocean. (3) The trip would be the nation’s earliest and importantest exploration of that vast wilderness. (4) Its animals and land was unknown to people in the East.

1. What change should be made in sentence 1?

a. Change Americans to American’s

b. Change St. Louis to St. louis

c. Change may to May

d. Change Missouri to missouri

2. What change should be made in sentence 2?

a. Change Pacific Ocean to Pacific ocean

b. Change There to Their c. Change There to They’re d. Made no change

3. What change should be made in sentence 3?

a. Change earliest to more early

b. Change earliest to earlier

c. Change importantest to most

important

d. Change importantest to

importanter

4. What change should be made in sentence 4?

a. Change people to People

b. Change was to were

c. Change to to too

d. Change the period to an

exclamation point

Crafting the Lesson (Me)

Metaphors are bridges. They create images by connecting any two different ideas, persons, places and things to show them in new ways.

Extended metaphors –1. When the two things are compared at some length

and in several ways. 2. It is a longer comparison

Questions to ask yourself as you read:

•What is the Metaphor?

•How are the characteristics of the second noun used to describe the first noun?

Crafting the Lesson (We)

Life is Dirt             The longer you hang on

             the smaller it gets.             Get it wet,

             and you've got mud             on your hands.

             Take care of life             or it's overrun             with weeds.

             Life can be rocky or smooth

             and it's great             for throwing at people.

•What is the extended metaphor in this poem?

• List characteristics of the two things being compared.

•Was the metaphor used through the entire poem? If so, then we have an extended metaphor.

Crafting the Lesson (We)

Life is Dirt             The longer you hang on

             the smaller it gets.             Get it wet,

             and you've got mud             on your hands.

             Take care of life             or it's overrun

             with weeds.             Life can be rocky or

smooth             and it's great

             for throwing at people.

•Metaphor: Life is dirt.

• List characteristics of the second noun: mud, weeds, brown, rocky, smooth, throw it, shrinking, earth, bumpy.

•YES

Composing Meaning (Two)

1. As a class read “Hope”.

2. Number the stanzas and lines.

3. Underline end rhyme and label rhyme scheme.

4. Write down the two unlike items being compared.

5. What qualities of the second item are being used to describe the first item?

6. Was refrain (repetition) used in the poem? If so, give examples.

Composing Meaning (You)

1. On your own, read the poem, “Hope”.

2. Use the poem to answer the questions.

Reflecting:

What is an extended metaphor? Give an example.