Assignment Details

Mask Assignment

2017-2018 School Year

English 1st Period

Date Due

Feb. 16, 2018

Additional Info
Read the poem attached to this email, "The Masks We Wear".Reread the poem “ Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar (google this poem ) 

Complete the following:
1. Compare and contrast the two poems. How are the messages in these poems similar? How are they different?
2. Consider the use of social media and networking in today's society. Do you feel social media and networking enables us to see who individuals really are, to see beyond the mask? Or does it facilitate these facades, these masks that we wear in everyday life?
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