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Dexter Beck, an eighth-grader at St. Jude Thaddeus School, poses for viewers as the time traveler from H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" Thursday at the school's wax museum. Upper grade students acted like wax museum statues of literary characters in an afternoon showing for school members and an evening showing for the community. The students sat in displays they created that included a write-up about the character they were portraying for 10 minutes, then had 10 minutes to relax and talk to people viewing the museum before freezing again.
Seventh-grader Colby Tilleman portrays Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and seventh-grader Grace Yzmon portrays Thalia Grace of Rick Riordan's "The Titan's Curse" Thursday during St. Jude Thaddeus School's wax museum.
St. Jude Thaddeus School students put together 19 wax museum displays for Thursday's two showings in the school gym.
The rule was "10 minutes on, 10 minutes off," said sixth- through eighth-grade literature teacher Carly Brunk.
Brunk and fifth-grade teacher Joyce Hellman said that, although this was the first year students portrayed book characters, the school's wax museum display has been going on for as long as they can remember. Last year, the students did displays of famous photos.
The teachers beamed when they talked about the work students put into their character displays. It was exciting to see students enjoy working on their displays, Hellman said.
Seventh-grader Colby Tilleman was barefoot and wearing rolled-up jean overalls and a straw hat with a brim that cast a shadow over his entire face. He was Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's hero in "Huckleberry Finn" and a character in "Tom Sawyer."
During his "unfrozen" time, Colby said he liked Huck Finn because he was "troublesome" and "never followed the rules." He said he related to Huck Finn.
Grace Ymzon, clad in a black leather jacket, was holding a large spear in her right hand. She was Thalia Grace from Rick Riordan's "The Titan's Curse."
The seventh-grader said she picked Thalia Grace because she's strong and brave, like her. Grace said she likes Greek mythology because she likes "crazy stories."
Carlee Kato's character was an elaborate and large, brown bag. She was portraying being beneath, as in Roland Smith thriller "Beneath," a thriller about someone who goes underground in search of his brother, where a society called Community live.
Carlee said mysterious are her favorite kinds of books.
Dexter Beck, 14, said if he had a time machine, he'd travel back, way back to medieval times.
Dexter was portraying H.G. Wells' Time Traveller in "The Time Machine." He had on a suit vest put together by his grandmother - and a bow tie. He sat on a small, black bench in a time machine that had a control panel made from a "Guitar Hero" drum set.
Dexter, as hard as he tried, couldn't keep a "frozen" face when a particular group of students toured his impressive display. A group of them got near his face and giggled, causing Dexter to break into a full-blown smile.
His arms and legs never moved.
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