BLACK HISTORY MONTH ART POETRY PERSONALITY | We Wear the Mask Dunbar

Save 25%...includes 4 personality surveys + We Wear the Mask poetry and art unit! Boost student relationships and remember your students’ personality types all year with this no-prep, easy-to-use Personality Type Unit & We Wear the Mask Poetry & Mask Art BUNDLE! This unit allows students to determine their True Colors Personality Type, Shape Personality Type, Learning Style (visual, auditory, or kinesthetic), and Brain Dominance (right- or left-brained). They then embark on a unit inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” poem. In it, students will use art and poetry to deeply analyze the masks we wear, distinguish between their inside vs. outside character and personality traits, and represent these findings through a self-created mask. This engaging activity turns this abstract concept into an activity that is high-interest, easy to understand, and memorable!

This simple format makes it applicable for 5th-12th grade students...and beyond! This All About Me Art can be used in any school subject as a Get to Know You Activity at Back to School Time, as a Halloween Mask activity, during Black History Month (Paul Laurence Dunbar is an African American poet), during your poetry unit, as an art integration activity, for a Back to School display, Open House display, hallway display, or wonderfully colorful classroom display that makes students feel at home in your classroom!

The Learning Styles Inventory Includes 7 NO PREP, easy-to-use pages:

•Page 1: Suggested Teacher Instructions (Included video link that explains Learning Styles to students)

•Pages 2-3: Simple, Quick 12-question. Multiple-choice Inventory

•Pages 4-5: Scoring Sheet/Answer Key

•Page 6: Explanation sheet explaining what each personality type means

•Page 7: Reflection questions that can be used independently, in partners, or in group discussion

The True Colors Personality Inventory Includes 6 NO PREP, easy-to-use pages:

•Page 1: Suggested Teacher Instructions (Included video link that explains personality types to students)

•Page 2: Simple Inventory WITHOUT type headings (“Circle words that describe you”)

•Page 3: Simple Inventory WITH type headings (“Circle words that describe you”)

•Page 4: Complex Inventory WITHOUT type headings (“Rate how much the words describe you”)

•Page 5: Complex Inventory WITH type headings (“Rate how much the words describe you”)

•Page 6: Interpretation sheet explaining what each personality type means

The Shape Personality Inventory Includes 6 NO PREP, easy-to-use pages:

•Page 1: Suggested Teacher Instructions (Included video link that explains personality types to students)

•Page 2: Simple Inventory WITHOUT type headings (“Circle words that describe you”)

•Page 3: Simple Inventory WITH type headings (“Circle words that describe you”)

•Page 4: Complex Inventory WITHOUT type headings (“Rate how much the words describe you”)

•Page 5: Complex Inventory WITH type headings (“Rate how much the words describe you”)

•Page 6: Interpretation sheet explaining what each personality type means

The Brain Dominance ActivityIncludes 7 NO PREP, easy-to-use pages:

•Page 1: Suggested Teacher Instructions (Included video link that explains Brain Dominance to students)

•Pages 2-3: Simple, Quick 18-question. Multiple-choice Inventory

•Pages 4-5: Scoring Sheet/Answer Key

•Page 6: Explanation sheet explaining what each Brain Dominance means

•Page 7: Reflection questions that can be used independently, with partners, or in group discussion

This The Mask I Wear Product Includes 12 NO PREP, easy-to-use pages:

•Pages 1-2: Suggested Teacher Instructions (Including links to videos and poems)

•Pages 3: Mask Poems (1 easy; 1 hard)

•Page 4: We Wear the Mask Brainstorm Sheet

•Page 5: We Wear the Mask Directions with pictures

•Page 6: Example Mask

•Pages 7-10: 4 Mask Templates

•Pages 11-12: Rubric (2 options)

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This Unit Helps You:

•Make the abstract idea of “Personality Type” more concrete. Students can remember their colors throughout the year as they work in groups.

•Get to know your students and show them you care about them as a person!

•Integrate SEL into your classroom in a simple way that helps your instruction throughout the year

•Create a positive classroom culture

•Help students understand themselves better

•Help students distinguish between inside character traits and outside traits

•Open conversation about how students feel “on the inside”

Ways to Use...with students, staff, and friends!

•Beginning of Year Get to Know You Activity

•As a character analysis

•Binder Cover

•Cubby Cover

•Bulletin Board Display

•Back to School Display

•Open House Display

•Thematic unit

•Poetry Unit

•Black History Month

•Halloween

•Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

•Data notebook

•Professional Staff Development

•Advisory meetings

•Specials classes

•Counseling group

•Afterschool club

•Summer camp program

•With your family and friends!

•Just for fun!

How I Use It In My Classroom:

I have used this with my 5th-8th grade students for years. We do it at the beginning of the year as a Get to Know You Activity. We talk about what makes a person who they are and how we have inside character traits and outside traits. We also use it as an opportunity to discuss our cultures and how they are the same and different. I have students complete the Personality Inventories to learn more about their "inside selves". We then watch the videos and read the poems about "masks" we wear. This leads to a wonderful discussion every time! They then brainstorm their inside and outside character traits to put onto their masks. I hand out the Direction sheet (in page protector so I can reuse it). Students follow the directions, present it, and then put this as their Binder Cover or Cubby Cover.

**This can also be used to analyze characters in books or novels.

Related Resources

Check out the “Getting to Know You” section of my store for these related resources

Personality Inventories:

•Book Genre Personality Inventory

•Science Personality Inventory

•Social Studies Personality Inventory

•True Color Personality Inventory

•Harry Potter House Inventory

•And many more!

Self-Discovery Inventories:

•Learning Style Inventory

•Group Work Style Inventory

•Big 5 Personality Traits Inventory

•Brain Dominance Inventory

•Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory

Personality Art Extension Activities:

•Me Mask (Inside/Outside Character Traits)

•Acrostic Personality Poem

•Name Tent Glyph

•Picasso Personality Portrait

•We Wear the Mask (Poetry + Inside/Outside Personality Mask)

•Two Voice Poetry (Inside/Outside Personality Poem)

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