WRITING POWER 25 MIN
Respond to Reading Make sure campers have their copies of An Eye for Color and their notebooks open to the graphic organizer for this lesson. Together, you will revisit the book, guiding campers to notice the author’s use of a type of figurative language called personification to describe the way that colors appear and interact. Explain that personification gives human characteristics to nonhuman things. (The author also uses similes and metaphors to describe how colors “behave.”) Draw a web on the board or on chart paper. (Refer to
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS Make sure campers understand that throughout the book the author describes colors as doing things that people do (e.g., dance or come to life). Explain that this is a type of figurative language called personification. Invite campers to describe different colors using personification.
the graphic organizer for this lesson in the Graphic Organizers section). As you guide campers to find details in the book, model filling in your web while campers fill in their own. Model Campers, in today’s story we read about how Josef Albers was fascinated with colors. He discovered that colors look different depending on what other colors they are next to. Let’s revisit the book and notice how the author describes the effects of the color combinations Albers experimented with. Let’s pay special attention to the author’s use of figurative language, especially personification, to describe what colors do. Read pages 17–18, beginning with, “He painted squares within squares...” How does the author describe what happened when the colors interacted? Give campers time to respond, then model filling in a circle in the web with the description (“Colors came to life like actors on a stage!”) while campers write in their notebooks. Practice Have partners reread pages 18–23 to find more examples of figurative language describing various color combinations. Have them add their examples to the webs in their notebooks. If time permits, Invite volunteers to share their examples. Clarify Remind campers that in the next lesson, they will use the details they gathered in their notebooks to help them write about color using figurative language. CLOSING CAMPFIRE 15 MIN Reflection Question Have partners turn knee-to-knee and discuss this question. Albers’s curiosity about color led to discoveries that changed the way people look at art. What is something you are curious to learn about? Praise and Affirmation Offer concrete praise and affirmation for campers’ efforts and accomplishments today. Shooting Stars Dance With the group, throw shooting stars (pretend to throw a basketball into a hoop). Campers can do a dance with the praise or put it in their pockets.
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