1. Miniature Literature Soap Carving Goals:
*Sculpture is presented with a relevant text
*Has small details or textures
*Form/shape is accurate
*BONUS* if it’s a book from school

2. Choose a segment from literature, it could be a book, short story, poem or comic. Figure out an object that would accompany or make a commentary on your literary passage.

3. Soap Carving that is Inspired by Literature Ojibwe Creation Story
Nanaboozhoo took the piece of Earth from Muskrat's paw. Just then, the turtle swam forward and said, "Use my back to bear the weight of this piece of Earth. With the help of Kitchi-Manitou, we can make a new Earth." Nanaboozhoo put the piece of Earth on the turtle's back. Suddenly, the wind blew from each of the Four Directions, The tiny piece of Earth on the turtle's back began to grow. It grew and grew and grew until it formed a mi- ni-si', or island in the water. The island grew larger and larger, but still the turtle bore the weight of the Earth on his back. Nanaboozhoo and the animals all sang and danced in a widening circle on the growing island. After a while, the Four Winds ceased to blow and the waters became still. A huge island sat in the middle of the water, and today that island is known as North America

4. Life of Pi
The animal in front of you must know where it stands, whether above you or below you. Social rank is central to how it leads its life. Rank determines whom it can associate with and how; where and when it can eat; where it can rest; where it can drink; and so on. Until it knows its rank for certain, the animal lives a life of unbearable anarchy. It remains nervous, jumpy, dangerous. Luckily for the circus trainer, decisions about social rank among higher animals are not always based on brute force. (1.13.3)

5. Hamlet
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! 'a pour'd a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was, sir, Yorick's skull, the King's jester.

6. The Old Man and the Sea By: Ernest Hemingway

8. If You Give a Pig a Pancake By: Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond

9. The Candy Makers By: Wendy Mass

10. Romeo and Juliet By: William Shakespeare

11. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland By: Lewis Carroll