Unit: Poetry

in Motion

Lesson: 2 Figurative Language (Personification)

Date:
Year Level: 5

Key Learning Area: English

Curriculum Outcome: Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and

imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs,
anthems and odes (ACELT1611)
Learning Intention (WALT): Use and understand figurative language
Success Criteria (WILF):
Identify examples of personification
Time

Introduction

5 min

Today we are continuing to use figurative language,

looking at Personification

Notes and Resources

Discuss WALT: Use and understand figurative

language.
and WILF:
You are able to identify examples of
personification
Time

Main Content

10 min

Does anyone know what personification is?

Notes and Resources

Discuss root word person

Show YouTube clip Personification
Personification is a type of figurative language that
gives human qualities to non-human things (but not
animals). e.g. The fire raced towards the houses.
Why might a poet use personification in their
poems?
15 min

Show some more examples of personification from

Poetry in Motion Webmix.
Show some sample poems.
We are now going to write a poem together using

Poetry in Motion Webmix

Personification

Learning Partners
Poetry in Motion Webmix
Examples of
Personification
Personification Poems

personification.
Show sample of a shoe.
We need to come up with ideas that might bring the
shoe to life. What do we think about its personality?
What kind of character traits might it have? What
human/animal characteristics might it have? How
would it move and speak? What would it do?
Brainstorm verbs, adverbs and adjectives to suit the
shoe.
10 min

Work together to create a poem using

personification.

Shoe Samples

Project the Shoe Samples onto the whiteboard.

Choose a shoe to personify, think back to when we
wrote one together.
If it were a person: How would it move? What would
it think? What would it look like?
Time

Conclusion

10 min

Have students share their poems.

Notes and Resources

Reiterate what personification is.

Homework - Post to class Edmodo

Edmodo

Watch Personification PPT from the Poetry in Motion Webmix.

Poetry in Motion Webmix

Personification PPT

Choose an object and write a short poem using personification.

(Ideas: car, computer, tree, hat,)
Post them here.
Resources

Symbaloo Poetry in Motion Webmix

Shoe samples http://www.nationalschoolspartnership.com/resources/kiwi/
Kiwi_Personification_Poetry_Literacy_101025.pdf