Thursday, June 25, 2009

Today's Lesson: Hyperbole


Mayor Bloomberg must have enjoyed being part of a reading passage on the English Regents this year. Apparently, he enjoyed it so much that he is now endeavoring to become part of test prep. Personally, I intend to use Mike's daily statement on mayoral control as a way to teach hyperbole next year. Here's what he said:

Changing one word of the current Assembly bill on mayoral control would "resurrect the Soviet Union" and "bring back chaos."

Pretty good, huh? I'm going to challenge my students to create an even wilder exaggeration for class. Here are some of the teacher created models I came up with:

Changing one word of the current Assembly bill on mayoral control would end life as we know it.

Changing one word of the current Assembly bill on mayoral control would cause hunters in Alaska to club more baby seals to death.

Changing one word of the current Assembly bill on mayoral control would melt the polar ice caps.

If anyone has any better ideas, I'd love to hear them. If no one comments on this post, the rotation of the Earth will change and send us careening into the Sun.

1 comment:

ed notes online said...

I thought it was getting warm in here. Phew! Thank goodness I caught this in time.