SUBSCRIBE chat center Gazette|Chatboards|Lessons|Projects|Classifieds|Mailrings|Jobs|Harry Wong|Live!|Advertise NEW LESSONS SEARCH BROWSE SUBMIT! <<PREV MORE LESSONS NEXT>> Share | Print Teachers.Net Lesson Bank Search Teachers.Net Advanced Quick Links: Set #1936. Emersonian Jelly Beans Literature, level: Senior Posted Sat Sep 2 17:47:38 PDT 2000 by Terry Anderson (tanderson@usd306.k12.ks.us). Southeast of Saline High School, Gypsum, Kansas Materials Required: Jelly Beans, Poster Board, Emerson Quotes Activity Time: 45-50 minutes Concepts Taught: Aphorisms I hand out a jelly bean to all the students, and ask them to write in their journals for 5 minutes how a jelly bean is like an idea. (The idea that jelly beans are ideas comes from Roots in the Sawdust,edited by Ann Ruggles Gere) I have students read their entries, and they come up with these types of examples: ideas are different flavors, different colors, chewy, some ideas are good like some jelly beans are good..etc. Some students prefer to write how a jelly bean is not like an idea (and then they come around to my metaphor) Then I hand out a list of Emerson quotes and explain that these are Emerson's ideas. I ask students to make an Argus-like poster using one of the ideas. They can cut pictures out, draw them themselves. Students also have to explain how the idea reflects their life in a short essay.

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