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Lesson: Mixing Metaphors across Current Events and Literature Lesson PlanLesson: Mixing Metaphors across Current Events and Literature Lesson Plan
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Expression, current events, and art can go hand-in-hand. After analyzing a multi-media piece entitled, Trade Canoe for Don Quixote, the class explores their own expressive process. They create collages that show a current event or issue from multiple or cross-curricular perspectives. 

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critical thinking, art analysis, collages, metaphors, figurative language, literary devices, literature, current events

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art analysis, collage art, critical thinking, higher order thinking, metaphor, art and politics, political themes, literature, current events, social studies
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6th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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