Color simile books

11-08-2005, 07:57 PM
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I've seen a model for a sort of step booklet where students pick one color and create a list of similes for it.
So the top reads
As green as...
and then there are pages reading:
grass
a frog
a go light
and so on. I was planning to try those this year, since the program I teach tries to do similes in ONE lesson. I bet you could do these as posters, or in lots of formats, and using non-color adjectives as well.
If your kids 'play the dozens', you may be able to use that, since it relies on very elaborate imagery. WATCH this one with sixth graders, since the dozens are by their nature--not real nice--but a kid who understands why it's funny to tell someone they're so fat their blood type is Ragu can understand the idea behind a metaphor pretty quickly. Depending on the kids...depending on their maturity...
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