Describes how the images of mythical beasts were used in elementary school art projects. Students designed their own mythical beasts in papier-mache sculpture, murals, clay, and cardboard cut-outs, and discussed how the images of mythical beasts were used in literature. (AM)

Describes how an integrated class exercise in which students became police artists to enhance students' recognition of reading is important to every subject. Students render drawings from a descriptive paragraph in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Finished drawings were imaginative, and reading took on a new importance. (GG)