Pre-view

Before you create, read, and look at your own and others' personal representations, address the following questions in a word-processing document. Cut and paste the following prompts into the document, and then write your answers.

1.  Upon meeting, most people engage in casual conversation, asking questions such as:
 
What is your name?                 How old are you?
Where are you from?                       What do you do?
 
In considering this type of conversation and then considering your physical features, dress, and body language,
how do you think someone might describe you? 
Remember: put yourself in someone else's shoes and consider what they might think in describing you,
rather than what you think about yourself.
 
2. Take two minutes to silently contemplate who you think you are.
 
Describe who you are in six sentences.
Focus on what you think about yourself, not how others might view you.
Is there a difference between how others identify you and how you identify yourself?  Why? 
Be concise, descriptive and thorough.

For example, “I am a person who listens to my friends ” is more appropriate than “I am a friend.”
 
  3. Define and provide an example for three of the following concepts:
 identity
values
beliefs
traditions
influences