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= Collage Presentation =

You will write a set of four metaphors, and make a collage to illustrate them. This assignment is due for SPC 78C on September 30th.




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 * Working with Metaphors:**

Take each one of the following categories and describe yourself as a specific example of it using __//**both**//__ words and pictures. >
 * **Plant** (I am a fungi ... I never let a party die.)
 * **Animal** (I am a honey badger ... because I don't care!)
 * **Historical Era** (I am the Roaring Twenties ... ferociously fun and frighteningly fabulous.)
 * **Mechanical Device** (I am a jack hammer ... the loudest tool around.)

**STEPS for completing this assignment:** 1. You will make a collage in 8.5 X 11" standard format in __**landscape orientation (horizontal)**__ incorporating the four categories of metaphors (see above) for your life! You may make a **tangible** collage to put under the document camera **or** you may make a **digital** collage stored online or on a flash drive.

2. Choose pictures that help explain the similarities between the metaphor and your life.

3. You will write an elaboration of each metaphor on note cards and then using the note cards, you will explain each metaphor within your collage to the class. This is the **only time** you will be allowed to **read your notes.** (For the rest of the semester, you will be required to speak ).


 * Example of Note Card Talking Points:**

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 * **Plant:** I am a Weeping Willow. The most dramatic of trees, I am gifted at lamentation! I am flexible, willing to go wherever the wind blows and at my best on windy days. I am deciduous, always eager to shed habits and attributes that no longer suit me. I am [|dioecious], having a son and two daughters.
 * **Animal:** I am a giraffe. I like to go for things that are a bit out of my reach. Despite my often goofy demeanor, I am surprisingly intelligent. I am a loving parent, and a nurturing, generous friend.
 * **Historical Era:** I am the '60's. I am an idealist! I love the beauty of moral righteousness and the drama of insurrection. I love the bigger than life nature of the heroic. I am patriotic in fundamental ways. I love the notion that to be childlike is to be high minded. Love really does conquer all.
 * **Mechanical Device:** I am a Segway. I am comical, outdoorsy, playful; I love pop culture and all things trendy. I love technology. I like to go fast, but only in nerdy, relatively safe ways. I like whimsy. I love the absurd!"
 * [[file:collage.pdf|**Click here to see an example.**]] **

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