The meaning behind the mask
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=314
A lesson plan for grades K–2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Theater Arts Education
Students explore the cultural significance of masks, discuss the use of masks in stories, and then investigate the role masks play in ceremonies and on special occasions in various African cultures. After students have studied these masks, they are then given an opportunity to choose a familiar story and make simple masks to perform the story.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
- Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
Kindergarten
- Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
- Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word plays/finger plays, puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 1
- Goal 4: The learner will explain different celebrated holidays and special days in communities.
- Objective 4.01: Recognize and describe religious and secular symbols/celebrations associated with special days of diverse cultures.
Kindergarten
- Goal 4: The learner will explain celebrated holidays and special days in communities.
- Objective 4.01: Explore how families express their cultures through celebrations, rituals, and traditions.
Theatre Arts Education (2001)
Grade 1
- Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
- Objective 1.02: Retell stories through guided dramatic play from a read-aloud text.
Grade 2
- Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
- Objective 1.04: Dramatize, through guided dramatic expression, stories from a read-aloud text, poem, fairytale or other form of literature.
Kindergarten
- Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
- Objective 1.02: Retell stories through guided dramatic play from text read aloud.
Visual Arts Education (2001)
Kindergarten
- Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
- Objective 4.04: Find inspiration in the work of other artists from many cultures.
- Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
- Objective 5.01: Recognize that people in many times and places have made art.
- Objective 5.02: Recognize that art is created to fulfill personal and/or societal needs or purposes.
