Tuesday - December 5 - Seven Ages of Man

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze poem for figurative devices in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

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Direct Instruction

Introduce Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man from the play, "As You Like it." 

It is an EXTENDED METAPHOR - An extended metaphor, is when an author takes a single metaphor (a comparison without using "like" or "as"), and stretches it out over the whole poem or story.

Guided / Independent

Peruse the poem and define unknown terms directly on the poem (annotate) using the vocabulary sheet that is provided to you.

listen one more time

Read the first five lines and determine: To what are the seven stages of man being compared?

Shakespeare was most famous for writing plays (dramas) that were either tragedies or comedies. All plays are divided into ACTS aand then into smaller SCENES within the ACTS. It only makes sense then, that Shakespeare compares the seven stages of life to seven _________ in a play. 

THIS IS THE EXTENDED METAPHOR - STAGES OF LIFE ARE COMPARED TO ACTS IN A PLAY.

Read and Annotate the poem for figurative language.
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
personification
Parallelism

Identify the seven stages of man directly on the poem.

listen one more time

Answer the following questions and provide textual evidence for each.

1. What age do you identify with most? 
2. Do you agree with the seven ages or stages of life?
3. What in the poem suggests that life "comes full circle"?
4. What is the TONE of the poem? 
5. What seems to be the happiest stages of life? Explain and provide textual evidence.
6. Explain how "The Seven Stages of Man" is an extended metaphor.

Independent