Friday, March 5

HAPPY FRIDAY! You have reached the end of Week 6! Here is a link to Week 6, and if you are ready to get started on next week now, you'll find that list here: Week 7

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. I've read and replied to all the assignments turned in on Sunday, and I'll get through the rest of the Week 5 assignments in the stack today, plus as many of the Week 6 (and later) assignments as I can. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment.

Congratulations on all the projects! I've got some more projects to add to the class lists, and I'll start updating the slideshow also. Meanwhile, for the Week 6 feedback you'll be visiting other people's projects, both Portfolios and Storybooks, and I hope you will enjoy seeing what everybody has been doing!

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. A lot of you were reading the stories of Sindbad this week, and Thomas found this really cool image to use of the incident where Sindbad is carrying the Old Man of the Sea; here's his Sindbad reading notes post. The illustration is by Monro Scott Orr:




Something fun from the Victoria and Albert Museum:

And here's something from the Chickasaw Cultural Center:


A great art history resource for those of you interested in art (I am!): SmArtHistory.org.


A dog's perspective on the rules of writing :-)


You can see Heart struggles with both sit and stay! From Awkward Yeti:


Plus some advice from Grant Snider about pruning back to what's essential:


Finally, from Crash Course, you can take a visit to the Mythical Mountains:


March 5: Howard Pyle. Today marks the birthday in the year 1853 of the American illustrator and author, Howard Pyle. You can read about Howard Pyle's life and career in this Wikipedia article, and there are many of his books at the Freebookapalooza. The image below shows one of Howard Pyle's paintings, The Mermaid:


Here is the trailer for a PBS documentary about Howard Pyle's art:



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