https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz SWBAT identify metaphors, similes, and imagery in Sherman Alexie's "Indian Education" that utilizes the style of vignettes. en-us 2018-04-20 05:57:02 UTC 2021-01-29 20:31:02 UTC hello@padlet.com yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253704998 A series of vignettes, short accounts, of a boy's experiences in attending school on a Native American reservation.]]> 2018-04-20 06:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253704998 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253705647 Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. His experiences as an indigenous American influences his writing. He is a poet, an author, a screenwriter, and a filmmaker. ]]> 2018-04-20 06:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253705647 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253706961 Here is a video by Washington post about school systems on Reservations]]> 2018-04-20 06:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253706961 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253711777 the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

]]> 2018-04-20 06:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253711777 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253713940 Vignette is a small impressionistic scene, an illustration, a descriptive passage, a short essay, a fiction or nonfiction work focusing on one particular moment.

]]> 2018-04-20 06:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253713940 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253717066 Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics. 

]]> 2018-04-20 07:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253717066 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253718824 When a writer attempts to describe something so that it appeals to our sense of smell, sight, taste, touch, or hearing; he/she has used imagery.]]> 2018-04-20 07:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253718824 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253720419 1. Read your assigned vignette. 
2.Identify 2 examples of metaphors, similes, or imagery in you vignette.
3. Explain the meaning of the phrase.
4. Explain what effect they have on your reading experience of each vignette.]]> 2018-04-20 07:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253720419 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253721296 In the vignette "__________", the phrase "____________" is an example of (metaphor/simile/imagery). ]]> 2018-04-20 07:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253721296 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253721772 The (metaphor/simile/imagery) "_________________" explains how the protagonist _____________________.]]> 2018-04-20 07:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253721772 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253722414 I think the (metaphor/simile/imagery) describes _______________________________]]> 2018-04-20 07:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253722414 yesl92 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253725102 In the vignette, "Seventh Grade" the phrase " I held my lips tight against her lips, a dry, clumsy, and ultimately stupid kiss," is an example of imagery.

I think the imagery describes the way his lips felt. It also describes his body movements and paints a picture of him trying to kiss a girl.

The imagery explains how the protagonist was nervous to kiss the girl and it ended up not being a very good kiss. ]]> 2018-04-20 07:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/253725102 337574999 https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/1142424778 2021-01-29 20:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/yesl92/6ivpjq1h12vz/wish/1142424778