In 6th grade English, students were studying metaphors and similes--a hard concept to grasp!  In order to make it more concrete the language arts teacher and I decided to do a lesson on the MIMIO interactive whiteboard system.  This would let me model a lesson using the MIMIO for the teacher and help make metaphors and similes more clear for students.

Using the MIMIO students and I went through a lesson from their book which included annotating a poem and pulling out the metaphors and similes,...
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