Art Literature Courses 2021-2022
September 2021 - May 2022
Each week, students will be a corresponding art project to enhance their reading! Students will share their projects in class.
It is quite motiving and fun to join together to read and to create!
Expectations for each lesson:
1. Art Projects: - Complete the art project based on the reading.
2. Write about 100 words to explain your artistic response or
be prepared to explain your artistic response to the class.
These courses meet via Zoom Room weekly
Tuition $300/Student/Semester $550/year
REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW! (Click HERE or EMAIL MRS. G. TO REGISTER YOUR STUDENT)
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Art/American Literature
Ages 13+. (9th-10th Grade +/-) Tuesdays @ 1:00 EST Beg Sept. 7, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following American Literature Classics (order TBD): Covering: The Scarlett Letter My Antonia The Call of the Wild The Great Gatsby To Kill a Mockingbird Of Mice and Men The Outsiders The Giver Fahrenheight 451 The Uglies This is the intended list, but some titles might be replaced as your teacher prepares the lessons:). 
Art/Literature - Middle
Ages 10-13 years. (6th - 8th Grades +/-) Thursdays @ 2:00 EST Beg Sept. 8, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following Literature Classics (order TBD): Covering: Redwall The Witch of Blackbird Pond Treasure Island The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Tuck Everlasting The Adventures of Huck Finn National Velvet Bud Not Buddy Wonder This is the intended list, but some titles might be replaced as your teacher prepares the lessons:). |
Art/Literature - Elem.
Ages 9-12. (4th-6th Grades+/-) Tuesdays @ 2:00 EST Beg Sept. 7, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following Literature Classics (order TBD): Covering: Swiss Family Robinson In the Heart of the Rockies Black Beauty A Christmas Carol Cheaper by the Dozen The Pushcart War A Wrinkle in Time From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil... Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nhim This is the intended list, but some titles might be replaced as your teacher prepares the lessons:). 
Art/Christian Literature
Ages 10-16 years Wednesdays @ 1:00 EST Beg Sept. 9, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following Literature Classics (order TBD): Covering: Bearing the Saint Letters to Saint Lydia Keeper of the Light: Saint Macrina The Dome-Singer of Falenda Basil’s Search for Miracles ICON Watership Down Dogsbody Spyridon’s Shoes This is the intended list, but some titles might be replaced as your teacher prepares the lessons:). |
Art/Literature - Virtues
Ages 6-12 Thursdays @ 2:00 EST Beg Sept. 8, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following topics from the Book of Virtues. (About 1 a month) Covering: Self-Discipline Compassion Responsibility Friendship Work Courage Perseverance Honesty Loyalty Faith **** 
Art/Composers
Ages 10-16 years Wednesdays @ 12:00 EST Beg Sept. 8, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Art/Composers Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great music. Over the school year, we will read about the following composers. (order TBD): Covering: Vivaldi Handel* Bach* Haydn* Mozart* Beethoven Schubert* Mendelssohn Chopin* Schumann* Liszt* Verdi* Bruckner Foster Brahams Tchailkovsky Dvorak Faure Debussy Strauss Joplin Ives Gershwin. Copland The "Composers and Art course will provide your student with the opportunity to respond to biographies and the music of famous composers through many different types of choice based arts projects. Art projects are not step by step projects, but projects that encourages students to response to the composer of the lesson. For each lesson, students are required to explain their artistic response with a few words explaining their creations when they share in the following lesson. |
Art Literature Courses 2020-2021
September 2020 - May 2021
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Art/Literature - Narnia
Tuesday @ 2:00 EST Beg. Sept 22nd Covering: "The Chronicles of Narnia" (Ages 8-12) |
Art/Literature - Lord of the Rings
Tuesday @ 1:00 EST Beginning Sept 22nd Covering: "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" (Ages 11+) |
Art/Literature - Beatrix Potter
Mondays @ 2:30 EST Beg January 4, 2021 Covering: Books from the "Beatrix Potter Series" (Ages 5-11) |
These weekly LIVE ZOOM Literature/Art Courses are geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the respective worlds of the "The Chronicles of Narnia" or “The Lord of the Rings”.
Over the 2020-2021 school year (September - May), we will read each of the books in the respective series. Each week (of the thirty weeks), students will be assigned a corresponding art project to enhance and to bring life and purpose to their reading! This is a true integrated project-based learning experience. Students encourage each other as they share their responsive art projects with the class each week. Student are motivated by knowing that their artwork and explanations will be posted online* (first names, age).
Over the years, Mrs. G's Art/Literature courses has proven to be highly successful, fun and motivating for art minded students!
Expectations for each lesson:
- Art Projects: – Complete the art project based on the reading.
- Write about 100 words to explain your artistic response OR be prepared to explain your artistic response to the class.
Some of the Narnia and Lord of the Rings Projects
"Hello Mrs. G.,
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ere are some photos of my completed assignment. I had a really fun time this week. For my project based on The Magicians Nephew, I chose to depict the wood between the worlds, using a really cool modeling technique (using flour, water, and salt) that I just learned." - By Inga
By Inga
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By Cecilia
By Miriam
By Cecilia
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Magnet Painting - by Cecilia
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I portrayed the land of Narnia on a leaf, to capture the sunrise through the bright fall colors on my "canvas". - Inga
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"I cleaned and hollowed out a gourd to create the world of Narnia. I painted the ground to match the hillside and added painted rocks to serve as mountains. The pegasus, Fledge, is made of a twig I hand-carved, and I added a piece of a maple leaf for wings. On it, Pauly and Digaree are riding, one in front of the other, and they are made from twigs and string, attached to the top of the gourd by a thread. To photograph it I shined a flashlight in from a hole I made in the back of the gourd." - By Inga
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"The Queen's Crown" - by Cecilia
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by Isabella
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By James
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" I chose to depict the wardrobe from this weeks reading. I painted paper towels to make the clothes, and used dried grasses for the trees." - by Inga
By Inga
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"My Narnian Creature" - by Cecilia
"My Narnian Creature" - by Miriam
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By Cecilia
"I loved the part when thay walk in to see Aslan and the the dryads and nyads playing there harps so I made a song up on my piano that I imagined the music sounded like. I've attached a video of me playing it.
I also wrote the music down and decorated the sheet music with flowers. " - By Inga
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By Gianna
"This is a picture of me going through my magic wardrobe. In the book, all of the kids go through the wardrobe, and I am following them. I used Adobe Photoshop Elements to put a picture of snowy woods into the wardrobe. The door is open, so I can step right in. I still made it back in time for class:)
By Melissa
By Emilie
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As the "Spring" flowers.. a checkers game between Peter (Red flowers) and the White Witch (Blue Ice) - by Cecilia
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"My drink is when Father Christmas gives them breakfast; with Peter, Susun and Lucy. When Edmund goes and betrays them to the White Witch.While Father Christmas gives Peter a sword ,and Lucy a drink, and Susun a bow and horn."
James
Lucy’s Bottle of healing potion - By Gianna
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"I decided to draw Aslan when he rises from the stone table I used glitter to make him stand out of the page and I painted a light brown for his face." - By Inga
"I embroidered Aslan." *****.
by Cecilia
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By Isabella
Created by Sarah
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"I Gelli printed a Narnian Horse" - By Cecilia
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Scratch - Coding Project (Image) - By Emelie
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By Isabella
By James
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" I chose to make a stamp that depicted one of the Calormenes businesses for when the Narnians fled and had to rent dancers, magicians ect, using the tools to make a stamp I carved it and chose a red brown for the color, I wanted to write the name of the business so I decided to write in Aribic for that is what I imagine the language in Calormen." ----- By Inga
By Gianna
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"I had an inspiration to make the horse and his boy out of craft wire." By Sarah
" I chose to do a charcoal painting of Narnia for When Aslan leads Shasta." - by Inga
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By James
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"The Door" - by Inga
By James
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For this week a Drew with pastels, so that it would look like a cave drawing, I depicted the dwarves and badgers cave with Prince Caspian lying on a bench, on the other side of the page I drew a dark brown so that it would look like the picture is set in the cave. By Inga
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Bookmark. By Gianna
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By Isabella
Digital Art by Angelica
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"This is the forest that the kids and the dwarf travel through on their way to find Caspian. I made it on the iPad using my Apple Pencil and the app Procreate, which is digital art. " - By Sarah
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By James
"Lord of the Rings" Projects - "The Hobbit"
"The Hobbit" - Pages 1-54
By Sophia
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By Elaina
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by Nicholas
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"The Hobbit" - Pages 55-111
"Burfur and Bilbo"
by Zahara
By Elania
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Gollum's Cave - By Liam
By Sophia
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"The Hobbit" - Pages 112 - 170 (Animal Persona - If you could change into an animal... "
by Nicholas
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"I chose a bat because: I like to stay up at night, I've always wanted to fly, And I like the feeling of hanging upside down." - Emma
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"It is a gold stick figure representing how I wish to be. The battery head and colorfulness in the picture represent how I want to be smarter and more creative. Also, the book background represents how I would like to be smarter for literature. The blue and purple pipe cleaners are supposed to look like Gandalf's hat, representing how I would like to be clever like him, or think like him." - Zahara
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"The Hobbit" - Pages 171 - 233
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"I tried to include both elements of barrels and invisibility into it. My project is a suncatcher I made from a plastic water bottle, which is clear and looks invisible when placed against the right background. Also, I painted ( with watercolors) the scene of the barrels in the river, as the dwarfs and Bilbo are escaping from the Elvenking. Also, I included a purple dot to identify Bilbo, purple because the water was cold and that would make him turn purple, like having frostbite all over." - Zahara
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"The Elf Kings' Crowns"
By Sophia
" I did a elf crown with stick, leafs, and berry from my back yard." - By Emma
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"Dragon's Eye with Clay"
By Claudia
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"The Hobbit" - Pages 233-287 - Respond Artistically to a Quote from the book.
By Emma
by Claudia
"And sometimes pairs of yellow or red or green eyes would stare at him from a little distance" ( The Hobbit, Chapter VIII, Page 154) I responded to this quote by making eyes out of paper and placing them on top of the quote I wished to use. I also colored the paper eyes with a neon green highlighter so they would shine green when the blacklight hit them, that is actually the reason I only did the green eyes, so I could use the cool blacklight. After I took the picture I put a cartoon settings on it because I realized it made the eyes look closer like they were floating above the paper. Which makes a connection to the quote " from a little distance" I was going for the effect of making the quote come alive, having the glowing green eyes appear to be coming at the observer. ******
By Zahara
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This is a drawing I did of Bilbo Baggins with a cup of tea. I looked through the pages assigned this week but couldn’t find any quotes, so I decided to look some up. I found this one and I imagined Bilbo back home in his hobbit hole serving tea and food to the dwarves who came to visit a while after their adventure. The treasure box in the corner shows the share of gold Bilbo got but he knows that other things are more important.
-Elaina Miller
" "The dragon swooped once more lower than ever, and as he turned and dived down his belly glittered white with sparkling fires of gems in the moon..." (The Hobbit. XIV.) "
By Nicholas
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"The Hobbit" - Pages 288- End - What did you learn?
By Claudia
"This week for the final project of the hobbit, I freehand drew a map of the hobbit story. This map shows the entire world that the hobbit takes place in and shows some notable locations such as the misty mountains, Mirkwood forest, and the lonely mountain." *** By Liam
" For my final project I decided to draw Gandalf and Bilbo on an 18x24 paper. I also drew Gandalf making puffs of smoke that foresees the their future with the Elvish sword, the giant spiders, the ring, Bilbo's hobbit hole, and Smeagle. " - By 'Nicholas
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The greatest life lesson from the book I feel was when we see each individual person go through their greedy phases and we see how terrible it really is to be greedy. I wanted to reflect something old from the beginning of the journey so to show how far the dwarfs and bilbo have come in their travels, so I used an old drawing I made from the beginning of the class, and I have it appear to be reflecting from a stone, also I made the stone both green and purple because I feel does colors best represent greed and envy. The stone is reflecting an image of Thorin because Thorin I feel was the best example of a greedy person in the book. To make the project, I drew on a small mirror the green and purple diamond shape then just simply pointed the mirror to the old drawing and took the picture. - By Zahara
By Elaina
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"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapter 1
I did this project because I love this part the most. I did the part where Bilbo had a birthday party and Gandolf came and set off a lot of cool fireworks. I drew a silhouette of Gandolf and Bilbo looking at the beautiful fireworks. and 5 different colored fireworks blue,yellow, pink, green, and orange. I also did a fadeing sky with black at the top and blue at the bottom to show that it's night. I tried to make stars by taking a small fan brush and lightly tapping it on my finger it didn't show up that well but it was worth a try.
From Emma
This week I chose to draw the ring from the first chapter. My description is "For this chapter of the lord of the rings, I chose to draw the ring that will become very important over the next three books. This ring holds deep powers and history that Frodo and Bilbo will soon discover. The inscription on the ring reads “Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh Burzum-Ishi krimpatul or One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” It is a very simple piece but is a very important part of the story. The red background represents its dark, evil background and powers that are hidden at first." - By Liam
I saw this while reading pages 1-44 in the first book of The Lord of the Rings. It is a quote that Bilbo said to Frodo: “you had better come and live here, Frodo my lad.” This quote isn’t super important but when I read it, I imagined Bilbo’s arm around Frodo, reassuring him as Frodo joined Bilbo as his family. I drew the art in pen and for the first time used color pencils. I don’t use color pencils that much so I decided to try it out.
-Elaina Miller
"Hobbit Path" - By Roman
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My project is of Gandalf's dragon which shoots fireworks at Bilbo's party. I first drew the dragon with colored pencils then used glitter to make the fireworks, I used glitter so that it would reflect off my light and shine like if it were a real firework. So that I could concentrate the light on the glitter I turned the lights off in my room and just had my closet light on, so the light came from just one direction and I could arrange my paper for it to just mostly shine on the glitter. After I took a picture of the drawing I messed with the settings so that the reflecting light looked pinkish like the reflection was from a real firework. Also, I purposely did not draw a pupil in the dragon's eye so that the fact that the dragon is not I real dragon but I statue of one would be known. The gray cloud hiding the neck of the dragon is supposed to be smoke from the fireworks. ********* By Zahara
By Sophia
"It was Bilbo’s birthday, and everyone received multiple presents. So I made a birthday present out of popsicle sticks, glue, and clay. I made the red line for a ribbon and the red clay ball for the bow." - by Claudia
"There was a red thunderstorm and a shower of yellow rain." I painted one of Gandalf's fireworks blowing up and showering the Hobbits with golden light." - By Nicholas
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"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 2-3
"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 2-3
"For my project this week I did paper dolls in a boat to represent the part in chapter two where Gandolf is telling Frodo the story about the ring. So I made two paper dolls, one is Smeagol and the other one is Deagol. Then I took a stick from my backyard and tied a piece of string to it for the fishing pole. I took a ring and put it under the water, then I took my little sister's boat and the put fishing pole, Smeagol, and Deagol in the boat. Then I put it in a creek and took a picture of it. I did this project because I love fishing and Smeagol is my favorite character." - By Emma
"For this project I decided to draw the Nazgul, or first known as the Black Riders. Frodo and Sam have a close encounter with one and I wanted to draw what I thought they would look like. I used pencil and charcoal to make the look shadowy and creepy. I imagined the Rider with a long black "cape" with multiple tears and a horse that almost showed no sign of life; only walked where its master led it. The Nazgul are mysterious and creepy so that is why I went with pencil/charcoal for my medium." - By Elaina
"These are finger puppets of some of the cast of LOTR. Frodo, Bilbo, Gandolf, teo knights, and Saruan." - By Roman
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"“This week I choose to draw the nightrider that we see in chapter 3. I really wanted to try and draw this on my iPad and I think it came out pretty well. The nightrider came to the town and bilbo decides to hide from the man. I drew this referencing a picture from the movie as well as what I imagined him as. I tried to draw him on a horse." - by Liam
"My inspiration for this project came from the quote " I really shall turn him into a toad" (page 64) This is when Gandalf jokes about turning Sam Gamgee ( a friend of Frodo's) into a toad so as to prevent him from telling everyone that Frodo is planning to leave. To make this project I went to an app on my computer that allows me to draw and paste pictures for art projects. I used a picture of a toad rather than trying to draw one, I also really liked the picture I found because I think the toad has a funny look of concern on its face which I find very amusing. Also, the app provided stickers of leaves and bark which I used to make my characters seem like they were in the forest. The best part about the project I feel is when I have Gandalf like he is laughing and walking away from Sam the toad ( that is if he were to turn him into a toad) The point of my project is to bring out the humorous possibility of Gandalf turning Sam into a toad then he laughs and walks away leaving Sam stuck in a toads body. Which is a thought I find very funny. " - By Zahara
"Frodo's Journey" - by Claudia
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"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 3-7
I did this project because I like the Black Rider and because black is my favorite color. I did a Black Rider silhouette with a pencil and then colored it in with a permanent marker so that I could see it when I painted on top of it. To do the back around I put one big blob of four different colored paints yellow, light blue, dark blue, and black, and then blended them together to make it look like a sunset. Then by copying what I drew underneath with a pencil I painted on top a Black Rider.
by Emma
"This is the song that Frodo sang when he was resting under a tree, at the time he was overheard. The title is in Elvin script which is translated to a title I made up “A Song of Procrastination” because it was sung when they were unnecessarily resting, and putting off the long trip ahead of them. Fun Fact: Did you know Tolkien made an entirely new language? The only fantasy author ever to have made a whole language for their story!" - By Sophia
"This is my interpretation of the ruin Frodo and the others visit in chapter four. It was my first time using water colors" - By Roman
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"My project is of the drink the Elves gave Frodo and his friends, "They found that the Elves had filled their bottles with a clear drink, pale golden in colour: it had the scent of a honey made of many flowers, and was wonderfully refreshing."(page 88) The idea that it was a drink that consisted of the elements of gold, honey, and flowers seemed pretty to me. I thought the drink sounded like it would be a very beautiful drink, not to necessarily drink but look at, for ornamental purposes. I made my project by mixing red and yellow food coloring in water for the actual drink to look like a golden honey color. Then I made the flower out of tissue paper, the leaves I pulled from a bush in my yard wanting to make the flower look as realistic as possible with the real leaf. I also took the picture of my project outside to add to the fact that the flower was meant to look like a real flower." - By Zahara
"In this lesson I attempted my own vision of what I picture Goldberry, spirit of nature, to look like." - by Nicholas
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"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 8-10
"Tom Bombadil, " For each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvelous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold. They gleamed as he drew them from their black sheaths, wrought of some strange metal, light and strong, and set with many fiery stones. Whether by some virtue in these sheaths or because of the spell that lay on the mound, the blades seemed untouched by time, unrusted, sharp, glittering in the sun" (page 142) I decided to draw with a pencil, Tom's daggers, which he gave to Frodo, Merry, Pippen, and Sam. I drew four, one for each hobbit. I thought they sounded cool with the details of snakes and jewels. I also made sure to include the detail of their leaf-shaped blades." -----------
By Zahara
"This is a drawing of when Frodo and Sam visit that cave in chapter 8. And there is demonic singing coming from the cave." - by Roman
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"For my project I made the letter that Gandolf sent to Frodo. How I made it is I took an envelope and covered it with mud, then I let it sit for five minutes, then I rinsed it off under cold water and let it dry. After it dried I took a red crayon and melted it on the paper, and stuck a penny in it to make it look like a seal. To make the letter I took a paint brush and wiped a little mud on it, then I wrote some of the words that Gandolf sent Frodo on it."---------
By Emma
"This week due to the cold weather my family lit a fire every day. For the Lord of the Rings assignment I decided to sandpaper a piece of firewood into a semi flat surface and use the ashes left over in the fireplace to draw the hobbit's lost horses. I sketched the horses out beforehand and used the ashes as a shading blend with the vine charcoal. " - By Nicholas
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"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 10-12
"For my last project of The Fellowship of the Ring - Book 1, I drew Gandalf, Sam, Frodo, Aragorn, and Legolas. I didn’t have my regular sketchbook with me so I decided to draw the characters in my schoolwork notebook. Gandalf and the Hobbits are on their journey while Aargorn and Legolas are fighting and defending them. I used a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien for the art project and it is my favorite quote from the author."
-Elaina Miller
By Nicholas
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"I painted a Christmas tree ornament with a sunset background and a fire to represent the part at the start of the chapter where they are all sitting around the fire."
by Emma
Black Rider - by Claudia
"My project is of the herb Strider gave Frodo after he was wounded. I made sure to include all the facts of the herb into the poem, also I tied to draw the plant the way it was described in the book. Including its strong scent and long leaves, also it's great healing powers." - By Zahara
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