Metaphors from Popular Culture

I try to keep lists of things that relate to my classes that happen in real life.

So here are the metaphors I remember from Popular Culture:

Lisa Castellano said “circus lessons.”  We’re the ring masters and our classroom is a circus.

Jeremy said “Grand Canyon of oral literature.”  I’m at the top and it is so beautiful.  I see people down there and they are calling for me to join them, but I want others to go with me.  I try to bring them and show them what I see.

Christi Cook used a proverb, “Where there is smoke, there is fire” to talk about the life of women warriors.  If a woman is buried with a sword, that is the smoke that indicates she was a warrior.

Laurie had a mixed metaphor that made me a little queasy:  “vomit onto the page and chisel something out of it.”  She was talking about how some of her students respond to the writing class.