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  35.     <blockquote><blockquote><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><a href="learningactivities.html"><b>INDEX</b></a><br><br><font size="+1"><center><i>Reading Revolutions:&nbsp; Ideas for Teaching</i><br><br><font size="+1">Learning Activities:&nbsp; The Art of the Book</center>
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  36. 	<p><b><font size=-1>Making a Book</b>
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  37. 	<p>Visit your school library, or even better, your community library.&nbsp;   Ask the librarian to help you prepare a selection of books for students to browse from different eras, different disciplines, and, if possible, different countries.&nbsp; While in the library lead the students in a discussion of the book as a piece of communication, or in some instances as an art form.&nbsp;  How does a binding work?  What typeface is appropriate for different purposes?&nbsp;  Does some paper feel better than others?
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  39. 	<p>When back in the classroom, have the students design a book.&nbsp;  They can do the cover art, layout, chapter plan, and design a dust jacket to attract and instruct.&nbsp;  Have them go to the school library and bring back diverse examples of book layout and discuss the practical as well as the artistic merits of the designs.&nbsp; The students can access many different sites on the Internet with facsimilies of books.&nbsp;  You can, of course, use the books on the Reading Revolutions site.&nbsp; The Magna Carta is particularly popular.
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  42. 	<p>The copy of <a href="http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Reading_Revolutions/MagnaCarta/index.html">Magna Carta</a> they will see on Reading Revolutions has illuminated letters on many pages.&nbsp;  This helped the reader identify their place in the book and gave the scribe scope for artistic expression.&nbsp;
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  45. 	<p>Students can practice the calligraphy of scribes as well as trying their hand at illumination.&nbsp;  An excellent exercise in creativity is to create a complete alphabet along a theme.&nbsp;  There are many example on the Internet of elaborate fonts.&nbsp;  These have been created by our modern scribes;  people who love words and find the text that creates them beautiful in itself.
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