Mask reflection
Socialization is how you have been influenced and what you have been taught to do, or accept. How it affects our society is outstanding. . .not in a good way. Society tells us what should be right and wrong, but most of the time they’re the opposite of what is actually right and wrong. They influence us so greatly, that we most of the time end up forgetting our own morals because we think that the morals that society has portrayed for us are better than our own true morals. This affects my life because I am one of those people who forgets their morals because of the influence of our society. I want to fit in, so I start to believe the lies that society tells us. This affects me because I know that I shouldn’t want to fit in; because I know that I was born to stand out. This affects me because I know that I struggle with this because I feel like the real me isn’t good enough for society because I’m not like everybody else. I’m not the girl that society wants me to be. I’m me.
The Mask Project is a project that we do at Animas High School to get to know each other better, and to get to know ourselves better. We write an essay about how we have been socialized, and how it has affected us as teenagers. This project was supposed to reflects us, in our beliefs, and morals, and everything about us. Which was a good thing because it gave us an opportunity to get deep with ourselves.
The process to get ready for this was very time-consuming, and stressful. We started with making our essays. We worked really hard on our essays. We learned about TEA paragraph. Then we did about 4 drafts of our paper. We revised our essays multiple times. Then once we were done with most of the essay, we started on our mask! We had to lay on tables, and get our faces plastered. It took quite a bit of time, but it was fun. After they dried a couple days later we started painting them. We used our metaphors to create our masks. I learned a lot, and had a lot of fun. I learned how to write TEA paragraphs, and much more. And the process was fun, and I enjoyed it a lot!
Ap far I am proud of my essay, and my mask. I don’t really feel bad for doing anything I did. I feel like my essay has a lot of good meaning, and it represents me a lot. I am proud of all my work in the school year so far. I feel like I am doing well, and I am loving my first year at Animas High School.
The Mask Project is a project that we do at Animas High School to get to know each other better, and to get to know ourselves better. We write an essay about how we have been socialized, and how it has affected us as teenagers. This project was supposed to reflects us, in our beliefs, and morals, and everything about us. Which was a good thing because it gave us an opportunity to get deep with ourselves.
The process to get ready for this was very time-consuming, and stressful. We started with making our essays. We worked really hard on our essays. We learned about TEA paragraph. Then we did about 4 drafts of our paper. We revised our essays multiple times. Then once we were done with most of the essay, we started on our mask! We had to lay on tables, and get our faces plastered. It took quite a bit of time, but it was fun. After they dried a couple days later we started painting them. We used our metaphors to create our masks. I learned a lot, and had a lot of fun. I learned how to write TEA paragraphs, and much more. And the process was fun, and I enjoyed it a lot!
Ap far I am proud of my essay, and my mask. I don’t really feel bad for doing anything I did. I feel like my essay has a lot of good meaning, and it represents me a lot. I am proud of all my work in the school year so far. I feel like I am doing well, and I am loving my first year at Animas High School.
My mask represents how I have been socialized as a white, middle class, teenage girl. I have been both positively, and negatively by this because of both stereotypes, and what I’ve been told not matching up; but being exact opposites of each other. Society had told me that I was supposed to be perfect. Which means that I have to wear tons of makeup, and wear designer clothes, and do whatever I could to “Fit in.” But I have always been told to be myself. Not to try to fit in. There’s a quote from Dr. Seuss that my mom used to tell me; it says, “We weren’t born to fit in. We were born to stand out.” This means that we shouldn't try to fit in, because we aren’t supposed to. On my mask, half of the face is a girl with zits, and imperfections, and on the other half is a girl with no zits or imperfections, which society tells us is “perfect” or “beautiful.” But I think the truly beautiful one is both. Because all women, and even men, are beautiful in their own way. And I hope that I can socialize people to believe this along with me.