Objects in Art: Year Long Symbolism Assignment

On page 12 of ​Speak,​ Mr. Freeman explains his year long art project to his students.

"You will each pick a piece of paper out of the globe. On the paper you will find one word, the
name of an object. I hope you like it. You will spend the rest of the year learning how to turn that
object into a piece of art. You will sculpt it. You will sketch it, papier-mâché it, carve it. If the
computer teacher is talking to me this year, you can use the lab for computer-aided designs. But
there's a catch—by the end of the year, you must figure out how to make your object say
something, express an emotion, speak to every person who looks at it."

Each student in English will do a similar assignment. Students will be randomly assigned an
object and asked to create art pieces/projects/representations throughout the year relating the
object to the various units and themes studied throughout the year. Your pieces should “say
something, express an emotion, and speak to every person who looks at it." What this means is
that you will do the same assignment several times throughout the year similar to how Melinda
made trees throughout the book.

Objects include:

Sky clouds ocean rivers

Mountains pencils book flowers
Fence fire mask eyes
Light bulb snow sun an empty jar
A ball a map camera a magnet
Nails a music CD TV set jigsaw puzzle
Grass moon blood pig
Horses dogs birds butterfly
Violin ears rain train car