In your everyday life what outlet do you use to express yourself and your feelings (EX: art, sports, writing, fashion)?

What is the importance of learning about a person’s background and not just what they’re famous for? 

What are the challenges of trying to tell someone’s story through theater? And what are the advantages?

When was the first time you saw yourself in another person, fictional or real? What experiences were they going through that were similar to yours? What was very different between the two of you? 

What is a challenge in your life that you’ve had to overcome? What did you learn about yourself during that process? 

If you could interview any historical person in history who would it be, and what would you want to learn about them? 

What is something that you want to be remembered for once you’re gone? How are you working towards that?

Materials: Phone/mirror, notebook and pencil. 

Step 1: Take a mirror or phone and study your reflection (1 min). 

Step 2: Take your notebook and pencil and write about a favorite childhood memory (5 min). 

Step 3: Study your reflection again (1 min).

Step 4: Putting your mirror/phone away, use your notebook to describe what you saw in your reflection and how you saw yourself. During this time make sure your writing is uninterrupted (3 min). 

Step 5: Study your reflection for a final time (1 min).  

Step 6: Now take your childhood memory story and rewrite it as if someone was observing you during that moment, a third person point of view.  

Step 7: Compare your two stories.

Reflection Questions:

Did you discover anything new about your memory or yourself in the second story that wasn’t there in the first?

What was difficult about having to study yourself/reflection? Did it become easier with time?

Compare and contrast your two writing experiences (first person vs third person). Which point of view would you prefer to continue telling your story in?

Materials: Notebook, pencil, poster paper, glue, printed images/magazine cutouts.

Step 1: Create a list of words and phrases that describe you and your life. 

Step 2: Take your list and write them out around the border edges of your poster paper. Creating a frame around the poster. 

Step 3: Review your descriptors and picture yourself as a home. If you were a home, what would you look like? What would be inside you? Where would you be located? Be creative and feel free to keep away from realism.  

Step 4: Picture yourself as a home and then create it. 

Step 5: Take your poster paper and draw/create yourself as a home. Feel free to print images, use magazine cutouts, draw or paint. 

Step 6: Share out what makes this home to you. 

Reflection Questions: 

What surprised you about the home you created? 

If someone else was to create you as a home, how would their perspective differ from yours? 

How might the image of yourself as a home look different in 5 years? How would it have looked 5 years ago?

Observe your actual home space. How are the lives of you and your family reflected in your home?