Creating Your Own "Foil"
Sheryl, High School Teacher
Students learn the literary term "foil" by describing someone who would be a foil to themselves and then creating an aluminum foil representation of that person.
- aluminum foil
- construction paper
- crayons and/or markers
Other craft materials as available:
- popsicle sticks
It's probably a good idea to make a model foil of your own ahead of time to show the students.
- Students fold a sheet of notebook paper in half. On the right side they list sevreal characteristics that describe
- Then they write the opposite of each of those characteristics on the other half of the paper.
- Explain to the students that the left side of the paper describes someone who is their "foil."
- Students use aluminum foil to create a person, and they decorate that aluminum foil character to represent their foil. They may choose to represent several characteristics or just one.
I would model each step by first listing things about myself (organized, sensitive, responsible, etc.). Then I list the opposite of each of these.
I would suggest making a model "foil" ahead of time. For mine, I might give her a backpack made of construction paper with lots of stuff coming out of it to represent disorganization and messiness.
Copyright (c) 1999 by Sheryl.