https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48 7th Grade ELA - Mini Unit on Figurative Language using the poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee" en-us 2023-08-03 00:57:43 UTC 2025-11-02 07:38:02 UTC hello@padlet.com danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655108104 Scary stories from Inuit mythology. This connects well to the eerie and creepy themes found in "The Cremation of Sam McGee." This would be used to provide context for the poem students are studying and how harsh conditions can be in the Klondike.]]> 2023-08-03 01:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655108104 danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655112744 This book tells the story of how sled dogs practices in Inuit culture have been around for hundreds of years and the details in which dogs play an important role in their culture. 

This would be used to provide context for the poem we are reading, and how the sled dogs play a role in the poem because they are mentioned a few times throughout Robert Service's poem. ]]> 2023-08-03 01:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655112744 danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655192446 A primary source from the Klondike Gold Rush. This would be an excellent component to use as it has stories from a primary source about the Klondike Gold Rush. This would provide some additional context for students who want to discover more about what the harsh conditions were like during that time.]]> 2023-08-03 03:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655192446 danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655194449 This is article that explores the Klondike Gold Rush from the point of view of North American native people like the Inuit. It discusses the effects that the Gold Rush had on the Indigenous people. Although it is not written from an Indigenous person, it is well researched and offers a point of view that is almost exclusively not talked about at all when discussing the Gold Rush.]]> 2023-08-03 03:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655194449 danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655197138 This book talks about figurative language from around the world. Since students will be analyzing and discussing figurative language in the poem for this unit, this book would be a great tool to use before reading the poem as a way to introduce what figurative language is and explain how every language has certain idioms and figures of speech, not just English. This would provide students a way to understand what figurative language is in their native language rather than feeling like they are learning a brand new concept and in a new language.]]> 2023-08-03 03:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655197138 danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655202626 This book has phrases and idioms from around the world. This book would help support my English learners as we begin to discuss figurative language in hopes that looking through this book, they would come across an idiom in their native language that they've heard before and be able to connect the new vocabulary words associated with figurative languages to their prior knowledge with idioms in their native language.]]> 2023-08-03 03:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655202626 danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655206250 This fun children's book tells the story of a monster under a girls bed using similes, metaphors, personification, idioms, hyperboles, and allusions. This book would be great to use at the end of the mini unit as a sort of formative assessment before a final test to determine if students can properly identify each type of figurative language.]]> 2023-08-03 04:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655206250 danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655208139 As a primary source, this book would help to tell the first hand account stories of people who traveled to the Yukon to experience the Klondike Gold Rush. While we wouldn't read the entire thing in class, I would probably scan a few pages or paragraphs to discuss and analyze with my students.]]> 2023-08-03 04:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655208139 danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655210372 This multi-generational and multi-cultural book boasts fun "rhythmic rhymes, repetition, recall, and alliteration." This would be great to use to introduce my students to rhythm in poetry so that when they read "Sam McGee" aloud, they are able to keep the rhythm and beat of a longer poem. This book would also help to teach alliteration and rhyme - two other elements of poetry and figurative language that we will be discussing during our mini unit.]]> 2023-08-03 04:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2655210372 danaptrach https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2666108439 A story of two gold miners navigating the Klondike Gold Rush told through first-hand diaries and letters. It also includes factual information on the process and logistics of the Gold Rush.]]> 2023-08-18 20:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/danaptrach/q2rcbm9nbpyqci48/wish/2666108439