This is a great lesson plan, but you can tell the designer wasn't an English
teacher! English teachers all know that a simile compares two unlike things
using "like" or "as," while a metaphor compares them *without* using "like"
or "as." Since this plan says for students to label their poster with, "The
three branches of government under the Constitution *are like a* ..." it is
a simile.
Terri L. Street, School Librarian
Longfellow Middle School
Norman, Oklahoma
tstreet@norman.k12.ok.us
"Never judge a book by its movie." -- J. W. Eagen
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, BettyTX <bhamilt@hughes.net> wrote:
> This sounds like a very interesting lesson. If you haven't heard the "TED:
> Ideas worth spreading" talk on metaphors, I recommend it. It's delightful.
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_geary_metaphorically_speaking.html
>
> Betty Dawn Hamilton (Using retired years to keep up with current events!)
> LMS (Middle & High School)
> Former Chair of Texas Association of School Librarians
> Former Contributing Editor of "Profession" section, Texas Library Journal
> Brownfield, TX
> bhamilt@hughes.net
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> Subject: New Lesson Plan: Creating a Metaphor for the Three Branches of
> Government
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> * NEW LESSON PLAN * CREATING A METAPHOR FOR THE THREE BRANCHES OF
> GOVERNMENT
>
> During The Dirksen Center's annual Congress in the Classroom® workshop --
> http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_programs_CongressClassroom.htm --
> participants are asked to introduce the lesson plans, resources, and
> techniques
> that have proven successful in teaching about Congress in their classrooms.
> A
> past participant presented a lesson entitled, "Creating a Metaphor for the
> Three Branches of Government."
>
> Students will create a metaphor poster that completes this comparison: "The
> three branches of government under the Constitution are like a..." They
> will
> also design and create an illustration for their metaphor, complete with a
> brief written explanation of why the metaphor is accurate. Each group’s
> metaphor must have the features listed in the lesson plan.
>
> Find "Creating a Metaphor for the Three Branches of Government" at:
> http://www.congresslink.org/print_lp_metaphor.htm
>
> Cindy Koeppel
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