Myths & Masks
4th Grade students have been working in their classrooms on creating modern day myths. Students independently wrote their own modern day myth where they created a superhero who has characteristics of myths from the past. Students then joined groups of 4 to create a group story in which all of their modern day myth characters make an appearance.
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Mask Making
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GIS 4th grade art students, as part of the Arts Integration Focus Schools, created paper mache masks representing their Super Hero or Mythical character. The students created the characters in ELA in their regular classroom as part of a unit of study on Myths andLegends. The students brought their
character description folders to art class and created a mask design (2D). They then learned to recreate their design in 3 dimensional form as a mask. Students were very creative in designing and constructing their Super Hero characters. Visual Arts Standards: ART.VA.II.4.1 , ART.VA.V.4.4
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