Beginnings

Masked Self-Portraits

By Janis Nunnally, posted on Aug 3, 2022

This lesson is a great way to get to know my middle-school students and for them to start thinking about the theme of identity. Students also focus on the use of symbols they believe represent different facets of their personalities. This year, I modified the lesson. Students drew a realistic self-portrait and used symbols to create a mask on their portrait (we’ve been in-person all year, so masks are very relevant to my students).

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