Friday, March 25, 2011

Pottery Wheel Activity

The students just finished reading the novel A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park about a young potter's apprentice in 12th century Korea. In the novel, the young apprentice, consigned to menial tasks, yearns to learn the ancient art of celadon pottery. The students had the opportunity to try the pottery themselves, and they found out that it is a lot harder than it looks








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