Post on 25-Dec-2015
MASKS:INSIDE OUTSIDE IDENTITY MASKS
Unit Lesson Plans by Michelle Meade Imagine That! Expressive Arts
Can Masks Be Cultural Story Tellers?
Share Tribal Tales?
Support Spiritual Ceremonies?
RepresentCharacters?
Preserve Family History Tell Creation
Tales?
Are Masks Theatrical?Do they represent beauty,
good and evil?
Do they enhance
dramatic storytelling?
Are they
larger than life?
Do they exaggerate
personality and
character traits?
Happy Face, Actor’s mask, 199-100 BCE,
HellenisticParacas Mask from mummy bundle. 3-1 BCE, Greece
Greek Masks
Modern Masks
Gourds Mask, Silvio Rebello
Vejigante mask, Reinaldo Rodriguez, Coconuts, ramilla sticks, Puerto Rico
Metaphor and Symbols Is there a difference?
Metaphor Symbols
What do we already know about Metaphor?
In writing descriptions in stories?
Poems? In visual art? If you had to create a
metaphor to describe you, what would it be?
What do we already know about Symbols?
What is a symbol? Who can give me
some examples of symbols?
If you had to create a symbol, to represent you, what would it look like?