Paper Chandelier
Last weekend I found myself in the Neiman Marcus at the Mall at Millenia. This venture into the foreign world of the modern shopping mall lead me to one of the most brilliant things I've seen in quite a while; an idea which I intend to plagiarize in my classroom. It was a chandelier of sorts, although that might stretch the definition thereof, consisting of sheets of paper, wire and binder clips. 
Visitors from all over the world had written messages in their native tongues, drawn a flag, created a picture from words, whatever came over them at the time. I love this idea. I love how individual it is, and how it is in essence a cloud of thought which is ever changing. I think I will attempt to make something similar for my classroom at school and give the students the opportunity to share their art work or thoughts in a relatively anonymous way. There is, however, the danger of getting a lot of profanity and vulgarity if placed in a high school classroom. I think I'll try it anyway, and trust that they can be mature about it. Yeah, right.
Reader challenge: My own note is up there, see if you can guess which one it is! (No fair if I already showed you...) Post your guesses in the comments.
3 comments:
Um . . . that is awesome. It's hard to see what's written on all of them, but I'm guessing yours is the flower and vase one (though it doesn't QUITE look like your handwriting) or it's the typed one that all you can see of it is 'ura' and the next line 'en'.
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PS: If you make one, please let me know how. I want to make one too!
*Yes, I'm a shameless copycat, but at least I warn you first.
Actually, it's the chess piece right in the middle. I know, not very characteristically Laura, especially since I'm a pretty awful chess player.
The sketching of the chess piece came about because I didn't know what to write, and one of the guys was thinking of doing something to do with chess notation because it is pretty much a universal language for chess players, but couldn't think what. So I drew a chess piece for both of us. And as it turns out, I'm pretty proud of it.
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