To celebrate a new school year, you are going to design your own personal mandala. To celebrate a new school year, you are going to design your own personal mandala

To celebrate a new school year, you are going to design your own personal mandala. 

• To celebrate a new school year, you are going to design your own personal mandala. 

• Your personal mandala will represent you as a diverse and unique individual who is needed to create our class dynamic, and will be displayed among the other student’s mandala designs to symbolize you as an important part of our class, thus illustrating the concept of part of a whole.

Use your brainstorming chart:

• Use your brainstorming chart:

• Things that are important to me

• Symbols representing the things that are important to me.

• What the symbols mean.

• Note: Reflect on yourself as a person-your past, present, and future, your goals, hopes, and dreams or anything that makes you who you are--a unique, diverse, and important individual.

Talk over your mandala chart with a partner.

• Talk over your mandala chart with a partner.

• Discuss your symbols

• ~ Is your meaning clear?

• Make any changes

• Decide which symbols you would like to use for your mandala.

Draw your symbols and add color to your personal mandala with markers or colored pencils.

• Draw your symbols and add color to your personal mandala with markers or colored pencils.

• Cut out your mandala.

• Place your name on the back of the circle. Use pencil.

Ask yourself these questions…

• Ask yourself these questions…

Who are you?

• Who are you?

• I am…

• Who or what is important to you?

• What are some of your goals in life?

Complete your mandala brainstorm chart.

• Complete your mandala brainstorm chart.

• Conference with partner for clarify.

• Color and cut out your design.

• Put your first and last name on the BACK of your mandala. (Use a pencil.)

• Your completed mandala and essay are due on Wednesday, September 4th.