Our second class video is now up on youtube and already receiving a great number of hits! This one is about personification. Tara, Stephanie, Greg, and Yana worked really hard to get their video done on Thursday before I left with the Grade 7′s on their year-end camping trip. So now we have 2 down and 3 more to go. Hopefully, by Monday afterschool we’ll have the third one here too. Here is the Vimeo version in case you can’t access youtube in school. If teachers would like to know how we created this, please click here for the complete instructions.
Personification Smartypants! from Jaki Braidwood on Vimeo.
One of the reasons we started this project was that we were unable to find videos that explained figurative language and poetic devices well. We found quite a few that combined them all in one video and gave a brief snapshot of them, but to really learn about them for the first time at an elementary school level, we seemed to be out of luck. Our solution to this was to create our own and post them for others to use as well just in case they also found themslves in a similar situation. We hope others will find these explanations valuable. We’d love to hear comments about them.
