Lend Us Your Ears Travel Back in Time By: Patrick & Owen

"Heads up the Hessians are approaching" -Sophia

"Oh look my new play has been published in the newspaper" -Lydia

"Those Patriots will never give up they just keep coming back for more" -Jake

This week we have been writing speeches for the Wax Museum.  The speeches we write will be read to visitors of the museum.  Students, faculty, friends, and family are invited to the Wax Museum on March 4th.  We created these speeches by reading through our reports, and boiling them down to the most important bits of information.  Each person in the Wax Museum will have a 45 - 60 second speech to memorize for the presentation.

The difference between our reports and the speeches is the we become the figure we studied.  Our speeches will be performed in front of our backgrounds we are creating in art class.  We looked at artwork from the time period, and also portraits of our figures to determine what our backgrounds would include.  Many of the students chose two very particular places for their background.  Some students chose to have their figure in the heat of battle on a field.  Others illustrated backgrounds to resemble their figure's home.

The paper we used to create these backgrounds came from a seven foot tall roll.  There are still a few more classes left to finish our work on the backgrounds.  The backgrounds will be hung around the Commons on Friday for our museum.  While making the backgrounds we had to think of a few different things.  The most important part of the background is that it makes sense to our speech and figure.  In class we discussed possible places our figures might be during the American Revolution.  We also got a chance to use perspective in out paintings.  The backgrounds could go beyond two dimensional, and we could work on making things appear three dimensional.

The Wax Museum is going to take place on March 4, 2011 at 1:30pm.  All parents should be receiving an invitation from their child to attend the Wax Museum.