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Mask and Poetry Museum Ms. Roderick’s Ceramics Students Sabino High School Fall 2003

First Period Confused Glad, gloomy girl-gone-wild Colored jewels strewn across her face Twisted lips like luscious lies Mismatched eyes like dazzling diamonds Acting out her deepest desires Class Poem

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Second Period Mixed Moods Sun carries warmth Euphoria expressed as ruby red rays Rain squelches hope Depression depicted with gloomy, pale tears Class Poem

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Fifth Period Ambipolar Pale, pure moon-face Craters of old, cold tears Bright burnt-brown sun-face Luminous jeweled rays Class Poem

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Sixth Period Cosmic Cornucopia Scorching, burnt-brown rays Ruby jewels, blinding star Freezing, ominous craters Bleak satellite afar Like fire and ice Class Poem

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Seventh Period Desperation I’m the child of great expectations gentle, generous, gracious In search of acceptance for who I am derelict, depleted, disturbed Alone in the crowd Aahhhhh! I surrender. Class Poem

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"Students in Ms."           Students in Ms. Roderick's ceramics classes at Sabino High School created personal masks and composed personal mask poems. The personal masks were part of a mask unit that also included research on a cultural mask and recreating that mask in clay.           To prepare to write their personal mask poems, students worked with teacher-librarian Dr. Moreillon to learn how their masks could be used as poetry writing prompts. As they viewed photographs of traditional masks, students listened to poetry related to those masks. They made connections between each photo and poem.      Students learned to web themes, ideas, and words related to a personal mask. They learned or reviewed poetic devices: rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, personification, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, and metaphor. We discussed voice (or mood) and correspondence between mask and poem. Using one mask as a prompt for all five classes, each period wrote a group poem and evaluated it using a rubric.     After completing their personal masks, students utilized that rubric as a guide as they composed their poems. Students self-assessed their poems; Dr. Moreillon assessed them as well. Ms. Roderick evaluated students' personal masks. Students' masks and poems were on display in the library from December 1st through 3rd, 2003 in the Mask and Poetry Museum.  ©2003 StoryTrail