English project part 2 & 3

Sorry for the bad quality...but if you can see anything you're seeing four elephants standing on the turtle with the disk off to the side. I decided that I'm just going to bring it in all in one piece after everything was dried instead of doing it all separately and putting it together in Mrs. Coursen's room. This way it's riskier but I don't really care as long as it's out of my house and in school somewhere. I'll drop it off on the way to Psych if I can. Now I just need to print out my paper on the book and I will be done with two of my books for this quarter.

I had to think out my last book for the quarter after I heard that we needed to have two of the three books written by American authors. That took out some of my voluntary choices but I finally settled with something by Jack London. It was either going to be The Call of the Wild of The Sea Wolf and since I didn't have The Call of the Wild on me I went with The Sea Wolf. Is it just me or was London obsessed with wolves? Maybe not as much as Ahab was with white whales (or spears and maps), but probably really close...

English Project part 1

So I've definitely decided that I'm going to do a sculpture type thing for my visual representation of a book I've read for this quarter. In fact, I have the clay and I've started already. I'm almost a third of the way done with it, but had to stop due to not having tooth picks or other little detail tools. My dad just keifed some from Aunt Shelly, but I'll work on it again later. I've decided that I'll take pitcures each time I stop so Mrs. Coursen won't think I've taken someone else's work (hopefully). It's not perfect, but I'm very proud of myself so far :)
I give you...the Great A'Tuin (without any marks or detail yet)!



I'm going to start working on the four Elephants and the Disk after I get some more clay. The Elephants are going to be blocky, but it'll have to do since I'm not very talented :) The disk should be the easiest part, I just need to figure out if I'm going to have figurative water coming off the edges. I found this really cool picture that I'm trying to reference, but mine will be different in a lot of ways...already is in fact. I don't know about you, but it loks like a giant, glistening brownie to me...though it looks like it would taste terrible...