Unit 2: Exploration of Cultural Identity

LESSON FOUR- GENERAL QUESTIONS

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Open and Word document and paste the following questions and your responses. 
Label the assignment E102U2L4surname and submit this to the following Assignment Folder - U2L4 Unit Questions.

When answering the questions, refer to the following Unit Two texts:

"My Body is My Own Business" - essay
"Am I Native Enough?" - essay
"What do You See When You Look at My Facebook?" - essay
"Nobody Ever" - essay
"Letters to High School Selves" - letter
"Self Portrait" - visual
"Untitled" - visual
"The Amazing Sense of Shake" - short story
"Footprints in the Snow" - poem

1. How do religion, culture, and world events shape the identities of the characters featured in two (or more) literary selections from this unit? Why do you think this is so? Provide a specific and detailed answer.

2. What are the dangers of holding stereotypes about ethnic or cultural groups?

3. Select two different literary works and discuss, in detail, to what extent world events have impacted (or shaped) people’s identities? In other words, discuss how society or community might change the way people perceive themselves? Feel free to include passages from the texts to support your answer.

4. Do the literary works studied in Unit Two lead you to conclude that identity is static (stays the same) or always changing? Multifaceted or one-sided? Explain your answer by using examples from two texts.

5. Did you see aspects of yourself reflected in any of the literary texts within this unit? To what extent do you better understand someone or yourself after reading these texts? Use references from the literary texts within this unit to clarify your answer.  Â