Identity Unit Day #2Entrance Ticket:

• What are two things Mr. Cassidy hoped you would learn from Day #1?

• Hints:• Marilyn Manson

• Metacognition

• Personal Identity

• Stereotypes

Definitions

• Define identity in your own words.

• Now, use a dictionary to define identity.

• Compare the two definitions. Combine them to make a definition that works for you!

• Find your number partner (I’ll assign), share your definitions with each other and then choose the best definition to share with the class.

Two Identities to Consider

• First: Patel• Patel’s TED Talk

• Draw a web where you identify as many of his character traits as possible.

• Circle the four that seem most important.

• Second: Calvin• Calvin & Hobbes comic strip.

• Draw a web to identify his traits.

• Circle the most important four.

Round Robin

• In a group of 4, you will share out the 4 words you chose to represent Patel in the Word Web you created for him.

• You must have reasons for choosing those 4, as you will have to talk for the full 30 seconds while no one else in your group can speak

• Now, do the same thing, but for Calvin

Super-You Blog Post

• Both characters (one fictional and one real) based part of their identity on a superhero.

• Blog:• Blog what your four words/phrases were.

• Blog how they have changed (or not) since we moved deeper into this unit.

• Choose a Superhero that you would like to emulate and explain why on your blog.