Mr. Melton stands in the front of the art classroom, showing a drawing on the board. The students get out their notebooks and begin copying the drawing. After they complete their drawings, Mr. Melton gives them instructions on how to create clay mugs for their projects.
Carter High School offers many fine art classes that have different teachers, one of them being a new art teacher: Mr. Melton.
Mr. Melton teaches Art 1 at the school, and he enjoys teaching it.
“It’s really fun, and you get to learn how to make things in here,” says Mr. Melton. He says that his favorite part of teaching is getting to help kids, and he absolutely loves being a teacher. He actually taught ESL (English as a Second Language) classes for over 10 years before becoming an art teacher. He chose to be an art teacher because he enjoys making art himself and thought it would be fun to teach.
Some students also have their own opinions of Mr. Melton and his Art 1 class.
“He’s ‘ight. He has a nice beard though,” says Adron Atkinson-Hawkins, a freshman who took Visual Art 1 last semester. He continues to talk about how Mr. Melton is nice to his students and “goofy.” Adron says that he enjoyed when Mr. Melton would read The Hobbit to the class because of the parts of the book where he sang.
Other students who are currently taking art classes also like Mr. Melton. One of these students, Lucien Shippers, says, “I think he’s a good teacher. He’s made me express myself more through art more than I ever had before, and I never really considered myself to be an artist before. He pushed me to become a better artist.” They continue to talk about how they like being able to be creative with the art projects, as they think Mr. Melton is lenient with what you decide to do on art projects. They say that the art class consists of learning basic art techniques and is a good class to prepare students for any future art classes that they decide to take later on.
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