We plan to meet twice for each Jane Austen book. The first meeting is to discuss the book and their reaction to it. The second meeting will hopefully be something "hands on" with the Regency period. Our second Conversations with Jane meeting was held at Sharon's house. She had all her beautiful fall decorations out and made finger sandwiches with scones and shortbread. It was all delish! We all had not quite finished reading Sense & Sensibility when we had our last meeting, so there was still much to discuss. There was deep discussion on whether or not anyone would really want to marry Edward (not Hugh Grant or Dan Stevens LOL, but Edward the character) and whether or not Marianne really does love Colonel Brandon with her whole heart at the end of the book (Can Marianne ever really do anything by halves? This author says no!). The girls also shared their blog projects for Sense & Sensibility. I was so impressed with the work they put into their projects and how they each captured the topic they chose to do! If you haven't had a chance to look over them, please check them out in the older posts.
Finally, we were able to go on to the activity I had planned. Actually, there were two since we didn't get the opportunity for the girls to write the Poem for Two Voices at our last meeting. The activity I had planned for this meeting was silhouettes. We followed the instructions found here. We did have a bit of trouble getting it down to the right size. We tried a couple different positions with the light and the person, but we never got it quite right. Our silhouettes were huge! It was much tougher to trace the person, too! Robin, Sharon, and the girls left me to the tracing. The girls had as tough a time staying still as I had with tracing the outline just right. We were all over the place and Sharon still wasn't satisfied with Elizabeth's nose and Skyeler looked like she had no neck :) I'm afraid we would have been a terrible failure at it in the Regency period. We persevered anyway and had some nice silhouettes, albeit the wrong size to frame. I ended up having to take a picture of the silhouette with the digital camera and then resizing it and printing it for them to cut out! Whew! Not the simple activity I thought. The girls took turns getting their silhouettes traced and working on the Poem for Two Voices activity. That turned out amazing and I'll post it separate from this one. Here are a few pictures of our day...
Starting on the left...Elizabeth, Calleigh, Tori, Hadley, and Skyeler
Yum!
Sharon poured for the girls! Those strawberries are disappearing fast!
Me tracing Calleigh's silhouette. I can't tell you how many times we got the giggles while doing this. Maybe that's why we couldn't hold still :)That just about wraps up Sense & Sensibility! If you haven't checked out their favorite quotes from the novel, please do, they are great! Up next - Northanger Abbey!
Angel
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