My Museum Journal: A Writing and Sketching Book. (Books For Young Readers).My Museum Journal: A Writing and Sketching Book. Shelly Kale kale, borecole (bôr`kōl), and collards, common names for nonheading, hardy types of cabbage (var. and Lisa Vihos (drawings by Otto Steininger). Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. : J. Paul Getty Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company. Biography Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into a family already in the petroleum business, he was one of the first people in the world with a Museum (310-440-7300), 2000. Illus., hardcover, 44 pp., $14.95. www.getty.edu/bookstore/ The authors use nine reproductions of works from the Getty collections to motivate youngsters to write or draw responses to them using different approaches: "create a place you've never been to before," based on a French eighteenth-century tapestry; and "draw your self-portrait after looking at a Degas Degas To release and vent gases. New building materials often give off gases and odors and the air should be well circulated to remove them. Mentioned in: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity self-portrait." Each picture also has a writing exercise of some sort: a dialog on "thoughts and feelings about growing up;" or an article to accompany a Weegee photograph. Handsomely designed, and extremely well-crafted, students will enjoy this and teachers may find some useful ideas for class use. |
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