The Room 503 Mask-a-teers!

This week in Drama, we began exploring masks. What is a mask? What do masks do? What do they represent? How do we use them? What does it mean to "mask" something? How do we, individually, mask our thoughts and feelings?

So we began to explore masks through ourselves. What "face" do we typically show to the world and what face do we typically hide? We made two, fairly simple paper plate masks. On Friday, the students played with the masks individually. First, using their bodies in concordance with the mask's expression and then in juxtaposition to the mask's expression.

Next, the students worked in pairs to create statues, expressing their maks in juxtaposition to one another. The following photos in this post and next show some of their efforts.