This week, I am working on essay structure with my post-intro students. After 22 years of teaching essay structure in various forms, I am, as you can imagine, sick of it. But then I came across this little analogy: how to bake your essay like a cake! It's cute. It's tasty. There are things here they might actually remember.
This got me thinking. A lot of you out there must have analogies that you use over and over in your classroom, because they work. Or maybe a teacher gave you an analogy years ago that you've never forgotten. Could you please share some of them here? That way, the rest of us can learn, steal, or just admire your ingenuity and that of the teachers you've known.
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I've never met any litigious Canadians.
You steal? You not a banker or a baker.
If you eat cake in bed you get dirty sheets.
My Pa Pa said dirty deeds give nightmares.
If you bake a patty-cake you roll in the bed.
The pillow of bankers is wet from dribbles.
They lay in bed some day and languish bad.
Anguish will rid them of narcissism behavior.
The conscience will haunt later. They dead.
Crooks may walk. But, there walking dead.
I bet you teach great values. You teach life.
I love to play patty-cake and eat 13- cupcakes.
After bankers snoop in refrigerator. They steal.
It's good to spread green pepper icing on cake.
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I am still puzzled.
Maybe I'll go burp.
That's a compliment.
In will leave beet soup.
Give lawyer`Pepto Bismo.
Share a jug of 'Lysol' gargle.
Lawyers gargle in bed on dates.