Jack's Second Wax Museum

Well, since we changed schools, Jack has now had his second opportunity to participate in a wax museum.  I guess this is a popular thing in Utah.  At our previous school, this was a traditional project in Spring of 3rd grade.  (Remember Jack as MLK?)  At the new school, it is a traditional project in the fall of 6th grade.  This year Jack chose to portray George Lucas.

He enjoyed reading book and learning about this sci-fi and film master, especially how he was involved in so many iconic movies.  (I, for one, never knew that he hasn't won an Academy Award.)  Jack worked on some of the aspects of the project in class.  With the various things we had going on, though, he and I didn't work on putting the tri-fold board together until the evening before.  He was up about an hour past his usual bedtime, but that wasn't too bad.  And he was really happy about how it turned out.

I bought the beard while Jack was at school, thinking I could convince him to put baby powder in his hair to complete George Lucas's current sagely look, but Jack wasn't interested.  So we'll say his hair was a nod to the George's younger days.

I recorded him delivering his informational monologue but it was pretty loud and crowded in the gym so it's hard to hear him.

THE LIFE OF GEORGE LUCAS FACTS

1. Lucas was born on May 14, 1944 in Modesto, California.

2. He was a very creative child. He liked to read comics, and watch TV.

3. When he graduated from high school, Lucas told his father that he would be a millionaire by the age of 30 - and he was!

4. He went to the University of Southern California and studied film production. 

5. Lucas married Marcia Griffin in 1969.

6. He created his own film company, Lucasfilm,Ltd., and made his first movie called American Graffiti, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, in 1973.

7. Lucas wrote and directed Star Wars in 1977.

8. He was the creator, story writer, and producer for all Indiana Jones movies (1981-2008).

9. Lucas and his wife Marcia divorced in 1983.

10. Lucas worked on the special effects of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park in 1994.

11. In 2012, Walt Disney bought Lucasfilm, Ltd.

YOUNG GEORGE LUCAS

Born on May 14, 1944 in Modesto, California

1. Did not like to work. 

2. He liked listening to radio and reading comics.

3. He got first T.V set at age 10 and liked watching western T.V shows.

4. Lucas did not do well in school because he had such a creative brain full of imagination, he was distracted.

5. He liked listening to Rock and Roll.

6. His father gave him a 35-mm camera.

7. His father wanted him to have a job, so started him in his shop.

8. Liked to race cars as a teenager.

9. A few days before high school graduation, Lucas got in a crash speeding around a corner, after a car hit him. His car flipped MANY times.

10. After the crash, he went to the hospital, but recovered after several weeks.

11. After the crash, George Lucas learned a valuable lesson: to take life and school, more seriously.