This document provides an overview of the Literacy Land classroom rules, teacher expectations, and skills students will master related to identifying and creating metaphors. Students will define metaphors, recognize metaphors in everyday language, draw pictures of metaphors, write sentences using metaphors, create their own metaphors, and present metaphors using weather words. The document explains what a metaphor is through examples and provides a list of weather words for creating metaphors.

1. Mrs. Margo J. Coulter Welcome to Literacy Land Room 304 Grade 06

2. Rules To Live By Treat others the way YOU want to be treated. Be on time Think BEFORE you speak. Bring “school tools” everyday. EVERY problem has a solution YOU are the solution.

3. My Expectations of you… Do your very best. Giving up is NOT an option. In Literacy Land you will have fun learning to use techniques to make your writing interesting.

4. Skills you will master: 1. Define and recognize metaphor (s) 2 Identify/recognize every day use of metaphor (s) 3. Draw a picture (s) of the metaphor (s) 4 Write sentence (s) using the metaphor (s) 5 Create your own metaphor (s) 6 Record your metaphor (s) 7 Draw a picture (s) of your metaphor (s) 8 Place in Literacy Land book under Metaphors 9. Blog your metaphor (s) for classmates to read. 10. Create, with a partner, 2-4 metaphors using ‘weather words’ for Power Point Presentation. (list attached) 11. Create a group game identifying metaphors. 12. Student/extra credit Power Point Presentation for Open House Welcome to Literacy Land

5. What is a Metaphor? … a metaphor is where we compare 2 things and say they are the same: ‘ Bill is a cunning old fox.” Bill is cunning + fox is cunning = Metaphor. Bill is not like a fox. He’s so cunning,he IS a fox!

6. Metaphors ‘Mary is a sheep, just following everyone else.’ Mary follows + sheep follow = metaphor Mary is not just like a sheep. She follows others so much , she IS a sheep!

7. Identifying Metaphors He ‘ ’ his stack. blew

8. The idea was a bolt of lighting for his writing.

9. He got under the collar. hot

10. She hadn’t the… foggiest idea where she was going.

11. She gave him the cold shoulder.

12. Don’t on my parade. ‘ rain’

13. He always has a ‘cloud ‘over his head

14. It was raining cats and dogs.

15. With your partner, use the weather words to complete the sentences below. Then locate a picture which depicts the completed metaphor. Hail : He __________ her with gifts. shower (ed) : Into each life a little ____ must fall. rain: His mind was in a _______! fog: _____ to the chief!

16. WEATHER WORDS FOR METAPHORS SNOW SUNSHINE DRY SPELL CLOUDY WIND COLD CHILLY THAW BLUE SKIES CLEAR SKIES BREEZE THUNDER HAIL FOG RAIN SHOWER

17. Comments from creator of website: Knowgramming. com/metaphors This website is dedicated to the proposal that metaphorical relationships drawn between any two disciplines are, in fact, universal being isomorphic mathematical derivations of the Unified Field Theory. Further, that this symmetric aspect of metaphor is extrapolatable both linearly and laterally thus may be harnessed to mathematically predict missing knowledge and invention in all other disciplines. “The metaphor reminds us that the universe is full of cousins. J.D. Cosnig