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Creating Personal Metaphors

Creating Personal Metaphors. Hands-On Critical Thinking That’s Fun Janis Pardue Hill, Ph.D. Louisiana Tech University. Metaphor: First Thoughts ????. What comes to your mind? What do you think of immediately?. Metaphor: Definition.

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Creating Personal Metaphors

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  1. Creating Personal Metaphors Hands-On Critical Thinking That’s Fun Janis Pardue Hill, Ph.D. Louisiana Tech University

  2. Metaphor: First Thoughts???? • What comes to your mind? • What do you think of immediately?

  3. Metaphor: Definition The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word metaphor as “a figure of speech in which a name or descriptive word or phrase is transferred to an object or action different from, but analogous to, that to which it is literally applicable”

  4. Objectives: • Introduce the metaphor as an effective critical thinking strategy, as well as a creative activity • Move the metaphor into the real world and out of the “strictly” literary realm • Share a hands-on metaphor lesson

  5. I believe in metaphors!! • Literary • Pedagogical • Real-life, everyday existence . . . for students . . . . . . and teachers . . .

  6. Key to Success . . . is . . . • The context • Remove the strictly literary atmosphere • Replace with a spirit of “play” and real-life connections • Connectedness – make the connections!!

  7. Parker Palmer • Parker Palmer’s portrait of the loom brings to life the potential of “good [teachers’ ability] to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves” (1998, p. 11).

  8. Creating Personal Metaphors • Development of the Lesson Plan • Teacher-to-Teacher Lesson Plan • LPB Video Series • DOE Web site www.doe.state.la.us, click on Curriculum tab, then English, then Teacher-to-Teacher • Sharing and Modeling

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