The Dot-inspired Illuminated Letters by 2nd Grade

Students were inspired by the story, The Dot to create a background starting with just a dot and turn it into something beautiful.

In connection to students leaning about technology in social studies, they discovered that before technologies like the printing press and computers were invented, people wrote by hand. Illuminated letters helped show important parts of the text and also gave clues as to the main idea of a text. Students used chalk pastels for the background and 'illuminated 'their letters with metallic markers 

Students'artwork!