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I Am Reading A Book By Carolyn Meyer

/ Stephen Dale Marlowe

imageI am reading a book by Carolyn Meyer. It is titled Anastasia, The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914. It is a long title, but everything after Anastasia becomes the subtitle.

The book looks like another one of those history diaries where the plot is exactly the same. An American pioneer girl has a sick family member,she goes on an adventure,she comes home, and the family member is either well or dead. But usually well.

But, this is different. Anastasia is the youngest of four girls, and has one younger brother. The book is historical fiction, but is based on Anastasia’s real adventures. One difference is that in the book is that the second youngest Grand Duchess, Marie, is called Mashka. Her brother is named Alexi. It’s a really great book.

via Emma Marlowe’s Random Musings

Stretch Lino

/ Stephen Dale Marlowe

Emma cutting a lino block.

Says LT Ball Intermediate School 5th grade blogger Kennedy, describing their class art project:

Hello, we are learning about MC Escher. We are doing rotational symmetry, rotational symmetry is when you make one design and it can be turned any direction and look the same. We are doing our own design on our lino. [Emma Marlowe is showing] how you cut the lino block. We are making our design to print 12 times to make one piece. When we pull the paper from the block we going to pull the print. We are using a blade and bench hook, we put our bench hook on the table and then we use the blade to cut our design.

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