Acronyms, Idioms, and Personification

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Acronyms, Idioms, and Personification

• D. Woodhouse

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Warm Up

• Warm Up
• Activity 1
• The URL of your activity ishttp//www.quia.com/r
  d/248102.html
• Activity 2
• Define the following terms in your notebook
• Theme
• Antagonist
• Conflict
• Plot
• Falling Action

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SOL Objectives

•  9.6 Communicate clearly the purpose of writing.
• 10.7 Develop a variety of writings with an
  emphasis on exposition.
• 10.3 Read a variety of works from different
  cultures
• 10.3 Read and comprehend, identify
  characteristics of a short story
•  11.7a Generate, gather, plan, and organize ideas
  for writing.
• 12.7 Generate expository writings that explain
  ideas through a clear general
•          Statement of the writers point, use
  specific evidence and illustrations,
•          Provide concise and accurate
  information. ? 

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Classroom Objectives

• As a result of this lesson given the power
  point, smartboard, notes, and activities
  students will be able to judge how idioms,
  personification, and acronyms are used in
  sentences by using quia.com and complete a quiz
  with 80 accuracy.

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Anticipatory Set (Copy)

• What do these letters and symbols mean when
  chatting online or texting (Copy 1-7 and the
  answers only.)
• 1. lt3
• 2. 143
• 3. 10X
• 4. AAK
• 5. AF
• 6. LOL
• 7. AYSOS

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Anticipatory Set Continued

• Answers 1. Heart 2. I love you 3. Thanks 4.
  Asleep at keyboard 5. April Fools 6. Laughing
  out loud 7. Are you stupid or something?
• You do not have to copy. ?
• Connection Today, we are going to analyze how
  idioms, personification, and acronyms are used in
  sentences.
• Relevancy In todays society, we use different
  dialects and colorful ways of describing items
  and situations.

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Copy Notes Acronyms

• 1. Acronym
• A word shortened by abbreviations and short
  words.
• Examples
• 3G-Third generation mobile telephone system
• BC- Before Christ
• SOL- Standards of Learning
• USA- United States of America
• NSU-Norfolk State University
• ODU- Old Dominion

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Acronym Activities

• Acronym
• A.  Choose which game to play.
• The URL of your activity ishttp//www.quia.com/j
  g/2126819.html
• Next Assignment To complete the next assignment,
  go to this website 
• http//www.classbrain.com/artholiday/publish/artic
  le_148.shtm

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Additional Acronym Activity

• A.  Write the acronym for the following words.
  Feel free to use the computer to find the answer
  if you do not know it. For example December
  Dec.
• 1. Bachelor's degree of science
  _________________________
• 2. United Kingdom _________________
• 3. Professor _______________
• 4. Company _______________
• 5. Enclose _____________
• 6. Revolutions per minute ___________
• 7. As soon as possible ___________
• 8. Uniform resource locator ______________
• 9. Boulevard_________________
• 10. Television________________

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Additional Acronym Assignment

• B.  Write the word for the acronym provided. Feel
  free to use the computer to find the answer if
  you do not know it. For example Mon.Monday
• 1. Hon.
• 2. Mrs.
• 3. Rte.
• 4. mpg
• 5. G.M.T.
• 6. e.g.
• 7. HQ.
• 8. D.D.S.
• 9. CD-Rom
• 10. Lt.

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Copy Notes Idioms

• Idiom
• Language used by certain people, group, or class.
  The word might have a different meaning from its
  dictionary meaning.
• Examples
• to the best of ones ability  Means when
  someone does something to the best of their
  ability, they do it as well as they possibly can.
  
• Get off my back! Means if you tell somebody to
  get off your back, you ask them to stop finding
  faults or criticizing you.
• A piece of cake Means to refer to something as a
  piece of cake means that you consider it to be
  very easy.
• Dead as a doornail Means this expression is used
  to stress that a person or thing is
  unquestionably dead.

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Idioms Activity

• Idiom
• Create a table that list ten idioms, the meaning
  of each idiom, and a sentence using each idiom. 
  Your table will be created in Microsoft Word.  Do
  not forget to type your first and last name,
  todays date, and title your assignment, Idiom
  Table.  Save your work to a flash drive or email
  it to woodhouse_homebound_at_yahoo.com

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Additional Idiom Activity

• See Ms. Woodhouse

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Copy Notes Personification

• Personification
• Personification is usually considered to be used
  like a metaphor (check your notes on metaphors if
  you have forgotten the definition). It is a
  figure of speech that gives human characteristics
  to objects or animals.
• Examples
• Poem About a Porsche if only that Ferrari would
  hear my horn, / how he drives / as if he owns the
  road. / Ohh! a pit in the road, / it bruised my
  exhaust, / how...
• Poem about a journey I see my birth/in a
  spark./I rise in a rage/to devour all/ I lay my
  tentacles on,/my passion burns in my chest
• "Earth felt the wound and Nature from her
  seat,Sighing, through all her works, gave signs
  of woe." from Paradise

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Activity Personification

• Personification
• This gets tricky! When you play this game, (if
  you believe that the answer is one of the
  following simile, metaphor, or personification)
  type it in the space provided, then submit your
  answer.  Do not worry about the little blocks
  that look like spanish letters. You can play with
  a partner or by yourself.  Have fun!
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE JEOPARDYhttp//www.quia.com/cb
  /710041.html
• Write a poem or short story using
  personification.  If you write a poem it must be
  ten lines or more.  If you write a short story,
  it should cover at least three paragraphs (or
  more) introduction, body, and conclusion.  Be
  creative, use your brain, and have fun!

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Additional Personification Activity

• http//volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/les
  son7.htm
• http//volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/7le
  sson.htm
• If URL does not open, see Ms. Woodhouse. You have
  two assignments. See next slide for second
  assignment.

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Second Assignment Personification

• Activity
• "Listen to the Sea"Use to write a poem about
  nature. Choose a word from List A or adifferent
  word that names something in nature.Choose a
  word from List B or another word that names an
  action. Writethis word next to the word from
  List A.

• List Asunmoonstarsskyseastonenightmountain
  dawnmorningList Btellsshowsremindsteachesl
  istensremembersbringslooksdancesdreamsguides
  takes

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Quiz

• Quiz  Acronym, Personification, or Idiom
• students can take it by going tohttp//www.quia.
  com/quiz/2829290.html

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Closure Exit Slip

• Write one sentence using personification.
• Create two acronyms. Tell what their meanings are
  and how the are used.
• Write three idioms that you use in your
  neighborhood.
• Briefly summarize this power point.