5.4 Personal Response Essay Prompts

Read the Essential Question and writing prompts below for your Personal Response assignment.

Essential Question:

How can one begin to understand and respect the viewpoints, perspectives, or morals of someone termed an outsider?

Personal Response: Prompts

1. Why is understanding and respecting the viewpoints, perspectives, and morals of someone termed an outsider necessary?

2. How can understanding and respecting the perspectives of an outsider be difficult?

3. How might understanding and respecting the morals of an outsider be difficult?

4. How might being termed an outsider result in difficulties in life?

5. How can choices about identity be complicated?

6. Why is staying true to one's identity not easy?

7. How can not knowing oneself result in issues?