Hello, recently, we the PLPers have been working on an interesting project. It’s a combination of metaphors, a revolution, and a theory, all put into one. In the beginning, we were given a group, and a revolution to research. My Revolution is the Meiji Restoration, and my group members are Calum, Alex, Ruby and Makyla. Currently we are halfway through our project, and we’ve done quite well as a group. The main task was to create a Rube Goldberg type of machine that has hidden metaphors that represent parts of the revolution we studied. Now, our machine is not that complicated, it is a lot smaller as well. We also had to incorporate Crane Brinton’s theory into our machine.
As you can see, it’s difficult to bring it all together, but me and my group found a way. We have a wooden structure with four layers, and each layer represents each stage in The Theory of a Revolution.
So, you can see our frame and it’s four layers. At that time, Alex was marking where we would put our first metaphor objects. We have been working hard every class to build our machine. Here are some videos of us working on our machine:
After a few classes, we have our first working metaphor part:
Its hard to tell, but how it works is a gear will roll down and hit a part of this metaphor contraption, which tips the water bottle that dumps water into the funnel. This signifies the fall of a power in our revolution. We will have many more of these types of objects, they just haven’t been built yet. So, that is an update on our Metaphor Machine.
We also need to create a video showing the machine working, and the creation process. I’ll be popting again, so check back soon to see the full machine working and to see the video!
See you