HookED SOLO Analogy Map
HookED SOLO Analogy Map
What is it?
File:HookED Analogy Template.pdf
The HookED SOLO Analogy Map and self assessment rubric is used to scaffold the steps to making great analogies.
How to use it
Step 1: Describe the features of the idea, activity or thing you wish to make an analogy for.
Step 2: Choose one essential characteristic.
Step 3: Use the second map to describe other ideas, activities or things that share the same characteristic. Think widely.
Step 4: Choose an idea, activity or thing that captures your attention.
Step 5: Use this to form an analogy with the first idea (or to create a whakatauki) in the box below.
HookED SOLO Analogy Self Assessment Rubric
HookED Analogy Self assessment Rubric
SOLO Analogy Poster
Student Use Examples
Analogies for SOLO Taxonomy
Student and teacher analogies for learning across different levels of SOLO Taxonomy have used growth and fruiting of a plant (hue/gourd), a blazing fire and preparing toroi (or tiroi) (a fermented delicacy made using puha or watercress (kowhitiwhiti) and mussels (kuku)).
Preparation of toroi
Boiling watercress (kowhitiwhiti) or puha represents a unistructural outcome. Cooling and adding chopped raw mussel flesh represents a quantitative change - and a multistructural outcome. Relational outcomes (qualitative change)are represented by the stage when the ingredients are cooling and stored in airtight jars in the fridge for two weeks to two months - because at this stage changes to the ingredients occur during the fermentation process. Extended abstract outcomes (extending or looking at in a new way) can be represented by the stage when the toroi is shared with others at a hui - toroi is being used to show manaaki (to look after or to care for others).
Plant Growth
-Prestructural: Te kore (nothing) -Unistructural: Te whakatōtanga ( The planting of the seed) -Multistructural: Te tupuranga ( Initial growth) -Relational: Te puāwaitanga (Bloom) -Extended Abstract: Te pakaritanga (Full maturity)
A fire, starting from embers and growing to a full blazing fire.
-Prestructural: Te kore (nothing) -Unistructural: He ahi pūrēhua ( A flickering fire) -Multistructural: He ahi muramura ( A steady fire) -Relational: He ahi whitawhita ( A blazing fire) -Extended Abstract: He ahi kongange (A roaring fire)
Growth of hue (gourd)
This is significant/appropriate in this instance is that the gourd has so many different uses for Maori - food containers/ medicine containers/ lamps/ floats/ musical instruments/ tops/ food/ works of art etc. It seems that the Hue gourd itself makes a good representation of the extended abstract outcomes - of standing back and looking at things in a new way.
(version one)
-Prestructural: whakarau (to cause to germinate) -Unistructural: pantangaroa (first leaves or cotyledonary leaves) -Multistructural: rautara (third leaf) -Relational: putauhinu (fourth leaf) -Extended Abstract: tautorotoro (throwing out shoots)
(version two)
-Prestructural: whakarau (to cause to germinate) -Unistructural: pantangaroa (first leaves or cotyledonary leaves) -Multistructural: rautara (third leaf) -Relational: pūwewehe tautihi (a place of specialised growth – strategic purposeful growth in apical meristems of the gourd plant) -Extended Abstract: hue (growth of the gourd – new life in as much as the gourd contains the seeds – also the fact that the gourd can be imagined as useful to Maori in many different contexts)
Unpacking whakatauki
The HookED SOLO Analogy Map provides an effective imagining place for the creation (and unpacking) of whakatauki (Maori proverbs).
For example -
Te anga karaka, te anga koura, kei kitea te Marae
The shells of the karaka berry, and the shells of the crayfish, should not be seen from the Marae
Can be interpreted as meaning that evidence of a lack of personal responsibility and poor organisation reflects poor leadership and a vulnerability.
If you start by describing the attributes of poor or vulnerable leadership - select the attribute that most interests you - in this case dis-organisation or a lack of responsibility. Then take this attribute to the second map and describe things that indicate dis-organisation - choose the most interesting attribute - in this case a failure to tidy away - leaving crayfish shells and karaka berry shells littering the marae. Form the whakatauki from these ideas.
Kaua e mate wheke mate ururoa
Don't die like a octopus, die like a hammerhead shark
Can be interpreted as meaning that when the going gets tough you should never give up - but rather persevere - struggle to the end in the same way that a hammerhead shark behaves when captured.
In this whakatauki we are looking for an analogy for perseverance - if we start by describing perseverance the attribute that captures our attention might be "to keep struggling". Taking this attribute to the second map allows us to think widely about activities, ideas or things that continue to struggle even when the cause seems lost. The hammerhead shark is renowned for never giving up. The octopus not. The whakatauki is formed from these ideas.
Students can use the HookED Analogy Map to create contemporary whakatauki, proverbs and poetic analogies reflecting their experiences and feelings.
