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How to Host A Figurative Language Tasting

May 3, 2020

If your experiences are at all like mine, you might have some students who just will not write creatively. They’ll create essays compliantly, but ask them to use their imagination and they freeze. In this post, I’ll teach you how to host a figurative language tasting activity–a lesson that gets kids writing every time!

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Why Host a Figurative Language Tasting?

I don’t know how creative writing electives work in your school, but here’s how they go in mine: kids need an elective, counselor sees a mostly empty creative writing class, the counselor signs the kid up for that class and assures them that it will be fun.

Unsurprisingly, students then show up to the first day of my creative writing class with questions.

What are we going to do in here? What IS creative writing? Wait, we’re going to have to write in here?!

Yes, my creative writing students show up not knowing that creative writing involves writing. 

Really. I once had a student DROP MY CLASS because he assumed creative writing meant learning how to do graffiti. 

So, when I say that getting students to actually write in creative writing can be difficult, I hope you understand. 

But, no worries! There are solutions!

Showing students how fun and engaging playing with words can be is an essential part of the solution. 

That’s why I do a figurative language tasting lesson early in every creative writing class I teach. 

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What is a figurative language tasting?

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Firstly, let me say that this is an idea I 100% stole from my instructional coach. The idea behind this tasting is to engage students. And what engages them more than food?

Ok, ok, feeding them is a little bit of a cheap cop-out. I’ll admit: I do like the benefit of getting some “cool” or “fun” points early in the quarter. 

In a figurative language tasting activity, students are given small snacks or treats. Then, they are required to create figurative language descriptions around each food item.

Eating is such a sensory activity. It incorporates all the senses and provides kids a wealth of inspiration for creating a description.

Before I break down how to plan this out for yourself, I want to let you know that I have a FREE worksheet and lesson plan for all of this in my TPT store.

How to Create a Figurative Language Activity

This activity isn’t difficult to do, but it is certainly not prep-free. It’s also not free-free unless your school is willing to pitch in some snack money.

Step One: Know What You Want to Teach

I mean, maybe this is obvious, but I actually struggled in my figurative language unit on choosing which techniques to cover. Turns out, there’s actually some debate about what qualifies as figurative language! 

In the end, being a Neil Gaiman devotee, I ended up going with the 10 techniques on this list.

For my figurative language tasting activity, I didn’t want kids to worry about all 10 techniques, however. 

Instead, I picked three that I wanted students to master and I thought would be especially fun with food as the catalyst: simile, metaphor, and hyperbole.

At the high school level, this might sound too easy. My student population, however, is way below grade level and is still working on middle school skills. This is still challenging for them without being too overwhelming. 

You should pick whatever works for you and your students. If similes are too easy, choose a different technique.

Step 2: Teach or Review the Terms

I know, we just want to get to the food! But we have to teach figurative language before we can practice it.

Cover for Teachers Pay Teachers product: Creative Writing Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt
Need a fun way to introduce figurative language? This scavenger hunt goes over 10 techniques and gets students up and moving!

I use a slideshow and figurative language scavenger hunt to introduce figurative language initially. My students write the terms, definitions, and examples in their notebook.

I also give them a handout so they have the information in two places (i.e. they have no excuse to ask me what alliteration is–you can look it up yourself,  kid!)

After I go through the terms, we engage in a figurative language scavenger hunt. I put five different poems up around the room and challenge students to find an example of each term “in the wild”.

Cover for Teachers Pay Teachers product: Creative Writing Figurative Language Handout
This handout provides students with the terms, definitions, and an example for each figurative language technique I cover, thereby reducing the number of times I have to spell “onomatopoeia” out loud.

After we complete the activity and review our answers, the students create their own example.

However you introduce figurative language, you need to do it. Don’t assume your students remember those terms from middle school.

Step 3: Gather Your Supplies

You’ve determined which terms are worth teaching. You’ve taught them. We are moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy hierarchy, and now it’s time for students to actually practice the skill and create something. 

For the figurative language tasting activity,  you need something for them to taste. Now it’s time to decide on and gather those materials.

Note, pay attention to your school’s rules around food. You may be restricted to just fruits and vegetables. You might also have allergies to work around. Perhaps you can’t even have peanuts in the building. 

Don’t get yourself in trouble or endanger a student for the sake of this activity. 

Figurative Language Tasting activity materials
Snacks, the figurative language reference handout, and the FREE student worksheet

I think about two things when I choose the food for this activity:

  1. What snacks are going to provide the most diverse sensory experiences?
  2. What’s cheap?

Your answers will be different from mine, but here’s what I picked last time I did this:

  • Pretzels for saltiness and crunch
  • Marshmallows for chewiness and texture
  • Hershey’s kisses for chocolatey and melty goodness
  • Sour Patch Kids for sourness and scratchy-texture
  • Hard caramels for the milkiness and hardness
  • Mints for the sharp peppermint, but also to get all these other tastes in our mouths

This provides a great variety about which to write.

Tips for choosing and buying snacks:

  • You don’t need to buy expensive and cute individually packaged snacks. For pretzels, I just dump some out on a paper towel in front of the kids. I bought a huge pack of sour patch kids and spooned small quantities into little Dixie cups to portion them.
  • Know how long you want this activity to last. I teach in 90-minute blocks and probably could have gotten away with 4-5 snacks, but I really didn’t want to risk “dead air time”. If you have shorter classes, you can easily do fewer treats.
  • Leftovers make great rewards or bribes later. (Not that this should be a regular practice, but if trading a Hershey’s kiss for a final draft of that overdue essay works… well, hey, what can you do?)
Snacks for figurative language tasting activity
TIP: Skip the expensive individually wrapped items and use Dixie cups or even just paper towels from the bathroom to portion out food from the cheaper, bigger, bags

Step Four: The Actual Activity 

I have worksheets that I pass out to students (included in the FREE Teachers Pay Teachers resource). Alternatively, they could just write down their descriptions in their notebooks.

Explain the plan to the kids.

I tell them what we’re doing before I pass out the first treat, but I also specify to write down figurative language to describe the appearance BEFORE they work on the tasting portion. Otherwise, kids wolf down the food before they have thought about its appearance. 

I encourage kids to try and write about all five senses as they’re working.

For me, this becomes kind of a group activity. I’ll ask students for, say, a simile for a pretzel and write down a few examples where they can be seen. 

Then a kid will say they can’t think of a pretzel metaphor and we’ll brainstorm together. 

I walk around during this whole process, looking over shoulders to double-check work and to capture some more great examples. 

A few one-sentence student examples can serve as great mentor texts later when you’re reviewing.

By the time we’ve finished the activity, we’ve already done a lot of review and students generally have a better grasp of each term we focused on.

Clean up is usually pretty easy. Kids tend to be grateful, less hungry, and pretty willing to help out. I never have a problem getting rid of unused materials!

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Conclusion

While this activity might be a little more expensive and require a little more prep than others, I love the tone it sets early in my creative writing class.

This activity lets students know that writing can be fun, but that finding new ways to say things can be challenging.

It strips away doubts young writers have because they’re too focused on the experience. It builds class culture as we all debate the best way to describe a pretzel’s “loopiness” and fosters collaboration as students share, proudly, the metaphor they were FINALLY able to put together.

I encourage you to try it with your students. Remember, you can grab my FREE resources for this activity to help cut down on your prep time.

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𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲-𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘁. Add some new Pinterest pins. Include it in a blog post. Let your IG followers and email subscribers know that it has a shiny new finish. ⁣
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𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮. Are your views and conversions going up?⁣
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Give it plenty of time (at least six months) before doing any drastic tweaking. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲!⁣
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👉𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀? ⁣
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𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝘆 𝗧𝗣𝗧 only newsletter!

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What are you dreaming up for 2021?⁣ ⁣ Besides What are you dreaming up for 2021?⁣
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Besides a world in which I can travel, hug my friends, and skip the "mask-ne" on my face, I'm dreaming up some big goals for this year. ⁣
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⭐ Launch more tools and share more information to help teachers begin their Teachers Pay Teachers stores⁣
⭐ Marry @zionthelyon in October (and survive the wedding-planning process until then)⁣
⭐ Offer an entire done-for-you Creative Writing course on my Teachers Pay Teachers store⁣
⭐ Make yoga a habit that's so instinctual, I don't even think about it⁣
⭐ Go back to school to learn about web development⁣
⭐ Organize my entire home⁣
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...and so much more. I have bitten a lot off this year, but I'm up for the challenge. ⁣
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿? I'd love to see what you're going to accomplish in 2021!⁣
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This book is a must-read for white people.⁣ ⁣ This book is a must-read for white people.⁣
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Years of working with at-risk, high-poverty, diverse students had already done wonders for making me aware of my own personal privilege. ⁣
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But Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give really connected some major dots for me. ⁣
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✊ Riots aren't caused by uncivilized people. They're a symptom of systemic oppression and the natural result of injustice and anger building over time.⁣
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And while I never thought I'd need to be intimately familiar with the workings of riots, 2020 proved me wrong. I'm so glad that I (and the students to whom I've taught this novel) had read this book prior to the Kenosha riots.⁣
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It allowed me to approach the whole ordeal with more understanding, more empathy, and helped me to stay focused on the priorities--human lives and justice--rather than getting caught up in the property damage. ⁣
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I've recently bundled all of my resources for this wonderful novel with some related titles (Dear Martin and All American Boys) into one epic literature circle unit.⁣
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𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆, 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁-𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼. ⁣
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(Oh, and everything included is both PRINTABLE AND DIGITAL!)⁣
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Repeating the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. is Repeating the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. is not enough.⁣
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We must live them.⁣
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I know in my own district, the curriculum is often compartmentalized. It's February--time for an African American literature unit. It's MLK day--time for a biography lesson.⁣
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While these are steps in the right direction, we are long past the time for a single African American unit. 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼. ⁣
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We can't continue to lump entire groups of people into a one-month unit and call our work done. ⁣
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Honor the work done before us today and try to imagine places in your classroom in which you can push against the traditionally white canon. ⁣
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𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘂𝗺, 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂⁣
⚫ 𝘈𝘥𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵, 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦?⁣
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⚫ 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺?⁣
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⚫ 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴?⁣
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Change happens from within--from within us and from within our classrooms. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁, 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆, 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼. ⁣
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What is it you need to cover or teach?⁣ ⁣ Lite What is it you need to cover or teach?⁣
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Literature circles are great for exploring a variety of topics. ⁣
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𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: ⁣
⚫ A genre (𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳)⁣
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⚫ An author (𝘑𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘺𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴, 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦)⁣
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⚫ A book type (𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴, 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘴)⁣
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You can still teach your required content while providing students with choice, differentiation, and the ability to collaborate with their peers. ⁣
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𝗧𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼.
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