Students will take the figures home and may put clothes on them if they wish. They should try putting the figures in 'their 'places, seating them in their chairs, using them as 'place holders' in their daily lives. Students share and discuss their experiences with their 'public selves'. Try thinking of it as a board game. Students may show their lives as they are right now, or their life stories.
Students discuss their board games and how they represent their lives.
We each have a public self and a private self. Each student will make a plaster of paris 'life mask' with a partner, using gauze strips impregnated with plaster of paris. Our lives are connected to those around us. String and Wire Figures Using string of various thicknesses, wire, and elastic bands, students will make string figures of themselves and others to whom they are connected. These figures may be hung from coat-hangers.