Re: To L. Swilley

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I feel your response to Rebecca was inappropriate. She took the
time to make a suggestion for a classroom project. Your comment
was curt and offensive.

On 12/31/09, L. Swilley wrote:
> On 12/29/09, Rebecca Cole wrote:
>> Ummm...I am not an art teacher, but this is an idea I had
>> as a way to get to know your students names, a little
>> about them, and make it into a fun craft idea.
>>
>> You can take a large piece of white paper, a posterboard
>> (any color the student wants) or maybe some long white
>> cardstock. What you are going to do is have the students
>> make a collage of words that describe them all centered
>> around their name. I am also a writer and keep a Thesaurus
>> handy so looking at that little book gave me this idea.
>> You can have them print/paste, draw, paint etc. the words
>> any way they want and maybe add some designs in there that
>> go along with things that they like to do. (You could have
>> musical notes for chorus/band people or maybe headphones
>> for people who like music, skateboards, skate tracks etc.
>> You know what I am talking about.) You would put the words
>> all in different shapes and sizes around the board and
>> then have the students tell what it is and why the words
>> describe them. I do not know if this is a good enough
>> description but I found it to be a neat idea.

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