Our Last ELO Class

Last friday we had our last ELO class when local book-binder Cathryn Miller came and helped us make our pages into "Shakespeare Said". So today we're going to post our pictures.

Above: the paper students used to learn how to bind books.

Below: Cathryn helping some boys with their work.

 Above: A teacher helping one of her students make a mini-book.

Below: Some students stitching their papers together.

 

Book Binding Instructions By Cathryn Miller 

Finds tongues in trees,

Books in the running brooks, 


Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 


I would not change it.

Duke, As You Like It, Act II, Scene I

Drama Class!

Here at Georges Vanier, every student takes part in drama class once a week with Ms. Deacon. Today Mark von Eschen from Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan came for a visit. He helped us learn the prologue from Romeo and Juliet and taught us to project our voices and articulate our words so "even the deaf old lady in the back can hear."

Above we have half of the Gr. 8 class (team Montague) and below the other half 

(team Capulet- Claire and I- go team!) as Mark instructs us.

We also have the video from when CTV came: 

CTV Video  

Our part is about half way through.

"Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where way lay our scene,

From ancient grudge,  break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage, 

Which, but their children's end, not could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."

Prologue, Romeo and Juliet

Claire and Erin

CTV

Today a reporter and some cameramen from CTV Saskatoon came to tape our students as they painted our newest cut-out: Antony and Cleopatra. They also got some shots of students in the art room.

Above- A student doing an interview.

Below- The CTV reporter in the middle of our art room 

Above- a cameraman talking to some students about our project with Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan.

Below- Some students working on Antony and Cleopatra.

 

Erin

Note: The February break will be starting on Monday, February 18 (Family Day) and will go all week so there won't be any blog for that time.

More ELO!!!

Yesterday we had our second-last (it's sad, I know) ELO class. Our final class will be Friday when a local book-binder will come and help us turn our pages into a book called "Shakespeare Said".

We also took a shwackload of pictures (naturally) so without further ado.....

Both above and below, you can see student's working on their pages.

And now for some kind-of-sort-of-finished products.

I really like the way this person made his sword pop by making it gold. Another random fact: He actually didn't try to get that cool orange colour but he spilled his red paint into the yellow and ta-da! Perfect orange!

 The blue flowers on "Come what may." Go really nice                        

with the gold leaf and red-purple letter.  

 This is Claire's. Love all the foliage.

I'm not sure what the purple flowers on this one are called. I'll post 

when I figure it out but for now they're pretty so I put them up.

I'll put up a picture of the book as soon as it's done!

If I had play'd the desk or table book, 


Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb, 


Or look'd upon this love with idle sight? 


What might you think?

Polonius, Hamlet, Act II, Scene II

Erin

Banner Printing Meeting

Today Ms. Martin, Mark von Eschen and Trevor Broughton met with the Josh Piper at Pelican Media about the banners we are creating.  It looks like the deep burgandy colour will work and that we will send the files to the printer in two parts, the background and then the text part (art part) separately. This is what they will look like.

 

Pelican Media will be printing the banners for us and some students will get to go to the print shop and see how the process works. 

  Since Ms. Martin was at a meeting here is a Shakespeare quotation about meeting. 

When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

Yesterday the students here worked very hard all day on Romeo and Juliet. All that's left now is some splatter-covering, Romeo's sword and we need paint their hands.

On top you can see (hopefully) the almost-not-quite finished cut-out. Below there are two students posing with the couple (Yes, Romeo is a girl. But hey, back then Juliet would have been a boy so whatever.)

And here is a close-up of Juliet's dress. We did a diamond pattern with dark purple flowers and added rhinestones for extra pzazz.

“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, 


May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.


Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest 


Come to thy heart as that within my breast.”

Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II

Erin

Gold

Hullo, everybody!! We are so grateful to anyone who has viewed our blog! So anyway, we have got some really cool pictures from E.L.O, which stands for Extended Learning Opportunities,  (Gifted Ed) and in E.L.O, we are making a large book! It is really awesome, because we have got kids from other schools coming to our art room and working on this with us. Random fact; you can actually eat gold leaf, and it won't do any harm to you. Unless you eat too much. So anyway, we are taking Shakespeare quotes and making the first letter William Morris style.

 

We were very impressed with this one. Or at least I was.

 Below, we have our dear friends letter. I like her rose.

 

After this, we take our quotes, glue them on giant paper ( in place of a T-square) and trace them on vellum, which a really thin paper, that actually used to be made of animal hide. After that, we use a special glue to paste real gold leaf on our letter.

 Above we have a student working on tracing on their velom.

 Another student.

Above we have a very messy table. Sorry, that was my table.

 This is awesome.

 After that, we use acrylic paint to paint the letters, and today, we finished with putting our letters in the drying rack. We will post more stuff after!

Now, fair one, does your business follow us? 

All's Well That Ends Well, The King of France, II, i

Claire