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Gotta brag about a student!

From: sharonbk
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 17:59:09 PDT

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    Every now and then a student will do something that catches you off guard in a very positive way. That happened to me today and I need to tell someone--art teachers!--who understands this sort of excitement!

    It was my last day with my 5th-6th grade students, and in lieu of "exams" (per se) this group had a test to wrap up the 4th quarter. I had a written test for them involving some of the things we've covered recently, and also a drawing assignment. (They had to stay in the art room a minimum of an hour and a half, but could stay as long as 3 hours.)

    I'd copied an Egyptian myth off the 'net which was geared towards kids of this age in its style & word content (I've since forgotten the source--sorry!), and told the kids that their job was to illustrate it. I told them they could focus on one "scene" from the story, do a "comic strip" with various panels, or come up with their own idea.

    They were told they'd be graded on their creativity, craftsmanship, and how "understandable" the story was, based on their drawing.

    Well. They all did some really cool drawings. Some showing Ra tricking Sekhmet the destroyer (who was a lioness) into drinking the red-colored beer (to make her sleepy) so he could change her into Hathor, the goddess of love. A couple of kids did really neat cartoon strips.

    One student kept working and working. The other kids left, and this one just didn't want to stop. Finally, after 2 hours (!) he said he was finished. Blew me away!

    He'd included every god and goddess. The rain god (Tefnut) wears a robe in which the folds turn into rain. The goddess of the sky looks like a cloud at first. Same with the wind god. The evil Apophis is in the lower right hand corner with a clawed hand holding people that he will eat. He's included the river Nile and the pyramids. Ra is the biggest one in the picture (changing night into day during one of his incarnations as the sun).

    ANYHOW, if a picture is worth a thousand words (and I'm approaching that!) it can be found at http://www.bigfoot.com/~artrageous

    I've just put this drawing on my main page, and there's also a link to the other projects we did during our unit on Egyptian art.

    Maybe I'm over-reacting, but I really think that this kid did an awesome job with his "montage" effect and the way he arranged the characters. What a great way to end the year!

    Sharon
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