Defining the individual, understanding how each of us differs from the community yet is still similar. Diversity as a source of pride and pain, strength and struggle.
Today, based on the personal responses I have read, I introduced you to simile and analogy by asking this question: "How are Canadians like honey?"
The first task for you was to form groups of four. You then, as a group, had to answer the question presented in point form (on one sheet of paper) We then discussed your answers as a class.
I then instructed each member of your group to come to the front of the room and take a cup of straws and four samples of honey (which were labelled with a number).
You were then instructed to jot down the numbers, sample each honey, and then, as a group, write down descriptors for each, being as in-depth as possible (colour, consistency, taste).
The purpose is to get you to see that honey, while generally defined as sweet, has a lot of other things going for or against it.
I then asked your groups to come up and take two more honey samples. The people in your group were to try them in different orders (two would try number 2 first; two would try number 3 first) and write down the descriptors. After the first ones have all finished, they students would then try the opposite honey, describe it and then compare it to the previous one.
The purpose of this portion of the assignment is to show how one's perspective in the world can be different based on what has come before (another factor that makes us all different, but, like honey, still the same).
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