You and your friends want to paint a wall in your own classrom. You wish to ask the principle to assign a wall to the students to let them show their creative expression
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You can either use the following conversation or develop similar one using ideas from it:
Student A: Hey, where have you been all this while? I have been looking for you everywhere. I want to discuss a very creative idea with you!
Student B: I was at the accounts office paying my fee. What creative idea do you have?
Student A: I was wondering if we could have our class walls painted with some informative themes, the class will look so cool.
Student B: Hey, our class is already beautifully painted; besides there are notice boards on the walls. Don’t you think the wall painting will spoil the beauty of the class?
Student A: Actually you are not getting me! I am talking about painting the blank parts of the left, right, and the rear walls. The other day I went to my younger brother’s school. His class was looking awesome with different themes painted on them. I got the idea from there!
Student B: Really? What theme do you have in mind for our class?
Student A: On left side we can paint solar system; on the right we can paint galaxies; on the rear wall we can either paint India’s Mars Mission or dolphins theme.
Student B: Wow! The very idea sounds so great! But how will we paint, we are no professional painters!
Student A: I know it will make our class look just wow! We will take our arts teachers’ help. I have already discussed it with her. She said she would draw the outline of the theme herself and assign different sections to different students for painting the colours in them.
Student B: Well, that is good. But how will we arrange the money? We need some good paints, brushes, and other material for the wall painting, won’t we?
Student A: I have also decided on that; I will ask the principal to provide us with the paints and the other material from the school; if we don’t get any help from the school, we will contribute the money.
Student B: That’s a great idea. Have you talked to the class teacher?
Student A: Yes, I have. She has liked the idea. She says she will cooperate with us fully.
Student B: I am really excited about it. Let’s go to our class teacher to request her to go to the principal right now for the permission.
There are many problems that can occur during the project:
1. Deciding who will paint what.
2. Delegation of duties.
3. Which design or theme to paint?
4. How to arrange for the material and the expenses involved?
5. When to paint—during school hours or after the school hours?
All of them can be solved by dividing the students into groups and delegating chunks of work among the groups. For example, one group can be asked to draw the theme on the wall; another group can do the base painting; another group can fill colour in the design. The art teacher and the class teacher can further help by assigning duties to these groups under their supervision.