Figurative Language Game

My group, which was ELA, came up with the game concept of a Figurative Language Memory Matching Game. Our main learning objective for this game was to effectively match an example of figurative language to its correct example. We made it into a tournament-style game. This is played by randomly getting cards placed between two players. The two players take turns flipping over two cards. They are looking to match the sentence with the correct figurative language and if they match, the person who flipped them over gets to keep them, if these cards do not match, the cards get turned back over face-down. The person with the most matches wins. Winners go on to who has the most points until there is a final winner for the class. 

The process of creating this game was interesting. We collaborated on what specific portion of ELA we wanted to work on, and we chose Figurative Language. We looked up game ideas for middle school English found this example and turned it into a tournament-style game after talking more about it.  After we got our idea in place it was easy in my opinion to get the game idea ready and prepared. 

I have experienced games in classes before. I have played memory games in math classes before but not sure what they were for. I probably have played more games in a classroom but none that I remember wit details or what it is 

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