Mask Handout Assignment

MASK HANDOUT ASSIGNMENT

Students will individually researched ONE culture that made masks and create an informative handout with the following information:

o Name, time (date to date), geographic location of the culture.

o A Map of the area where the culture existed.

o Formal qualities used (type of color, line, shapes, balance, etc.).

o Materials used

o The character or function of the mask of the culture researched.

o Four (4) representative images of masks from that culture.

Create at least five (5) test questions related to the culture and the qualities and function of the masks they made and print them on the back of the handout.

MASK HANDOUT WORKSHEET

Name of the culture .

Time period in which the masks were made ,

Geographic location of the culture .

Geographic location of the culture .

c Locate Map

c Locate 4 images

Describe formal qualities (color, line, shapes, balance, degree of realism/abstraction, geometric/organic forms, etc.)

Describes materials used to make masks

Describe character & function of the mask & who made them & who used them.

NOTE: In some cultures men only make in others women only make, and in some men make & women use or visa versa. Some masks are used in sacred rituals while others are made for celebrations.