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Trustworthy Images
Students investigate metaphors. In this writing activity, students brainstorm traits of a trustworthy person and create a metaphor for a trustworthy person.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
This instructional activity is designed to help students begin to engage with metaphors on a deeper and more abstract level. The instructional activity will begin with a poem containing metaphors accessible at all levels, and with each...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Voice Building Poetry Lesson: Four Metaphor Poetry
Inspired by Mem Fox's Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge which includes four metaphors for memory, this writing prompt asks students to think of an original abstract noun. Students will brainstorm details as they come up with ideas for...