Students in Ms. Stephens’ art classes created plaster masks for the 8th grade fourth quarter project. The masks related to the thematic study of Identity. Students painted and constructed images that either express something about their identities or showcase a way they hide their identities. This connects with the 8th grade English thematic study of Identity. Students are reading various fiction and nonfiction books that deal with characters who hide and eventually accept some truth about their identity, and reading several identity-themed poems, like “We Wear the Mask,” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
