I enter in the small dimly lit room, exchanging polite smiles with the one other students that still linger in Mrs. Dean’s tenth grade English classroom. Making a repetitive back and forth trek after setting my things down and walking back to the white board. Where the black and white paper cutout of a classmates face sits; held up by a single piece of tape, surrounded by the dry erase markings from the day befores lunch artwork. His face is placed over the drawn on body of a penguin, only to be erased for the lunch group to agree upon a new drawing for the day. The works that sprung to life after the boy placed a printed picture of himself on the infamous “Mama Dean’s Hotties” wall where only the most eligible men’s portraits are placed, from 50 cent to David Beckham. But his plan backfired one spring day, after I decided to move it onto the whiteboard and draw various creatures’ bodies
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By lightening up the somber moods of students who may not be having such a good day, so as the year of tenth grade came to an end, and the final lesson in Mrs. Dean’s class revolved around The Great Gatsby; it only made sense to attempt at using my higher artistic skills to make the best and last “Cam drawing.” To which, consisted of his face on the body of Gatsby that was lounging on a floaty sitting on a poorly drawn pool with his grand house in the background, looking strangely similar to the The White House, along with Nick’s small cottage house above a small drawn paved road where Gatsby’s yellow car sat with an indent on the front left light to show the point where Myrtle was hit. Just little hints of the book where hidden throughout the mural that took up the whole white board. And was so grand that Mrs. Dean kept it there for the rest of the week, to lighten the mood of the somber ending of classic
By lightening up the somber moods of students who may not be having such a good day, so as the year of tenth grade came to an end, and the final lesson in Mrs. Dean’s class revolved around The Great Gatsby; it only made sense to attempt at using my higher artistic skills to make the best and last “Cam drawing.” To which, consisted of his face on the body of Gatsby that was lounging on a floaty sitting on a poorly drawn pool with his grand house in the background, looking strangely similar to the The White House, along with Nick’s small cottage house above a small drawn paved road where Gatsby’s yellow car sat with an indent on the front left light to show the point where Myrtle was hit. Just little hints of the book where hidden throughout the mural that took up the whole white board. And was so grand that Mrs. Dean kept it there for the rest of the week, to lighten the mood of the somber ending of classic