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From: "M. Austin" <whest177@wheatstate.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Re:Faith Ringgold
>I was lucky enough to attend Faith's talk when she came to Hutchinson KS
>last year at our conference. She is an amazing speaker, and funny to boot!
>Afterwards I did a similiar project as this, only instead of just having
>them draw themselves I copied their photos from the school yearbook, and
>had them cut out their own faces and then draw their bodies so they were
>flying over their cityscape. They were too cute! I have an example on my
>site (I think I did these with 3rd grade).
> ~Michal
> K-12 Kansas Art Teacher
> http://www.geocities.com/theartkids >
>> How lucky you are to have Faith Ringgold coming to your school. I hope
>> you'll share the experience with the list!
>> As for a lesson, the 1st and 2nd grades I teach enjoyed a project that
>> they did after we read Tar Beach. After looking at images of city
>> skylines, especially Seattle with the Space Needle which we live near,
>> the students drew their own cityscapes or landscapes. They then drew
>> themselves flying over these places. In the story, whatever Cassie flies
>> over, she comes to own. Your students could fly over their 'scape and
>> own it or visit it or change it in some way, however you might like to
>> spin it. They mounted their drawings on larger paper and clued patterned
>> paper squares around the edge as a "quilt" border. They were quite proud
>> of their finished work.
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