Famous Failures

Students in my middle school enrichment group were introduced to x-acto knives in this project.  We discussed safety and proper use before anything.  Once that was completed, I had students choose a celebrity of their choice and research ways that they struggled and overcame or failed and were resilient. Students wrote a short paragraph explaining these "failures" We then found pictures of these celebrities online and used Photoshop to posterize them.  Students cut out the white, gray and black sections of the photo with the matching color paper underneath it. There is a much better explanation of how to do this here.  These really came out awesome, i am so proud of their hard work and love the way this bulletin board sent such a great message during MCAS season which can feel very stressful and heavy at times!