The Secret Garden Lesson Plan

Similes and Metaphors

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

To examine how the author uses figurative language and metaphor to create vivid descriptions

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1.C

Structure:

Print out the following quotes on a piece of paper and give each student a copy:

“She heard something rustling on the matting, and when she looked down she saw a little snake gliding along and watching her with eyes like jewels.”

“Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end, and that the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through which she was passing on a strip of dry land.”

“... for when the carriage...