Allowing Students to Find Themselves

 Students, no matter the age are trying to find that elsuive person inside of them.  In high-school, they don’t know who they are, let alone who their real self is.  Wouldn’t be great if you, the educator, gave them the tools to see themselves?  Gave them the ability to question who they are, and ask them to develop another person who doesn’t react the way they do not like. 

Who is an Educator?  Anybody who decides to teach someone something about anything.  At that moment, you become an educator! An edcuator is given the task to improve the minds of all that come to them. The best thing any educator can do is to show a student a way to find themselves. 

Now is the time!

The following is a project that you can assign.  They can do it in groups or individualy.  You explain and give them the following document. Once everyone’s questions are answerd, allow them to digest what is going on, and what they have to do.  As you alloow this time, they will call you to them and you will be a able to answer all of the individual questions, that is easily missed in public school.

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Do one of these to describe who you are!

1. A List of 20 sentences that would describe who you are?

• In this list add: If you could be any animal what would it be and why.
• In this list add: What is your favorite number and why?
• If you could live in any place in the world, where would it be and why?
• f you were stranded on an island what would you have. (food and water already there, can not bring people)

2) Your autobiographical biography

• A story about where you were born, how you ended up here, and what life was like for you. This must read like a fictional story.  There can be no “I” statements.      
• Tell it like you’re an outsider telling the history of you.

3) Write a poem from two opposing people

•  Pick two people in your life. One person should know you real well but see you differently than most people do, like a parent.  The other person should be a friend/or person who knows you really well.
• Split the page into two columns.
• The first column is for the parent figure.  The second column is for the friend person..
• Write 20-25 lines for each person, and how they would describe you.

4) Write a 5 stanza 4-5-3-2 poem

• Each stanza of the poem has to have 4 lines.  There will be 5 stanzas.  
• Each stanza will have  4 lines. The first line has 4 words, the 2nds line has 5 words, the third line has 3 words, and the last line has 2 words.
• The whole poem is about you and who you are.

5) Famous before your time

• This is a news story about you. 
• The story is being told after you’ve already become famous and are really, really old.
• Act as a reporter talking about you and your life.  Pay more attention to   
     who you are, and less attention to what your life will be like.