"We Wear The Masks."

The sixth graders started Cultural Studies today watching a short video on masks, identity and world culture. We then did a quick reading of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, "We Wear The Mask." This started us on a conversations on what are some of the purposes of masks. What do masks hide? What do they reveal? The students were then asked to look over their bio-poems, consider some of their thoughts about their own identity, and then create masks of their own. This work will be finished tomorrow in class.
Any student who has not yet turned in a bio-poem needs to do so.

In Language Arts we continued discussing what makes for a good question in a Lit Circle discussion. We looked at differences between a closed question, and an open question, between a fact based question, and a value based question. Tomorrow we will explore strategies to help students summarize material that has been read.


Homework: Cultural Studies. Due Wednesday, October 6th.  Students should finish their Mask-Making worksheet.
Reading: Read for thirty minutes. Remember to make an entry in you reading log.
Tardy Homework: Students who have completed their bio-poems, or did not complete yesterday's language arts homework should do.