Family+Metaphor

**We find it in advertising slogans: **  · "Life is a journey. Enjoy the Ride." (Nissan)  · "Life is a journey. Enjoy the ride with a GM reward card." (General Motors)  · "//Life's a journey//--travel light"   **** Dad ****  is the  **** super-size band aid  **** , strong and powerful but not always effective in a crisis. **** Mom ****  is the  **** middle-size tweezers  **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> which picks and pokes and pinches. **** <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">David **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> is the  **** <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">single small aspirin  **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> on the third shelf, sometimes ignored. **** <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Muffin **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">, the sheep dog, is a  **** <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">round cotton ball  **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">, stained and dirty, that pops off the shelf and bounces in my way as I open the door. And **** <span style="color: #943634; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> I  **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> am the  **** <span style="color: #943634; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">wood and glue  **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> which hold us all together with my love. ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">By: Belinda <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Fifth of July **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">My family is an expired firecracker set off by the blowtorch of divorce. ** ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">We lay scattered in many directions. My father is the wick, badly burnt but still glowing softly. My mother is the blackened paper fluttering down, blowing this way and that, unsure where to land. My sister is the fallen, colorful parachute, lying in a tangled knot, unable to see the beauty she holds. My brother is the fresh, untouched powder that was protected from the flame. And I, I am the singed, outside papers, curled away from everything, silently cursing the blowtorch. ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ** "A Perfect Paragraph"  ** My family is a paragraph My direct dad is the topic sentence, getting to the point and keeping everyone else on track My helpful older sister is a detail, always supporting the family My organized brother is the sequence, keeping everything in order My younger sister, the prima donna, is the descriptive words, sometimes a little flowery, but usually, precisely what the family needs My mom is the transition, the glue that holds us all together I am the closing sentence, the decisive clincher of the family Each member of my perfect family paragraph has a unique responsibility that helps us function as a whole **  Let’s Get Started…   ** In the first three student models, the students compared their families to: <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · A medicine chest <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · An expired firecracker <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · A paragraph <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Step 1: (Brainstorm) ** · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Think about your own family. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Select a ** collective noun ** that best fits your family. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Decide which family members you want to use in your poem. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Then, ** using descriptions **, decide which component of the collective noun most closely resembles each family member. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Step 2: ** · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Begin writing first draft.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What is a metaphor? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A metaphor is an __implied__ comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. The word metaphor itself is a metaphor, coming from a Greek word meaning to "transfer" or "carry across." Metaphors "carry" meaning from one word, image, or idea to another. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">When Dr. Gregory House (in the TV series House, M.D.) says, "I'm a night owl, Wilson's an early bird. We're different species," he's speaking metaphorically. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Metaphor for a Family **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">My family lives inside a medicine chest :