English

Oral Language 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.2

Who Am I?

This activity encourages students to explore their own values and gives them an opportunity to explain their values to other students.

Steps To Complete the Activity

Have students

• Decorate the outside of a paper bag to represent their personality or what they think others readily see/judge/perceive them to be.
• Cut out pictures, words, and ideas and put them inside the bag to represent the inner self (such as values, personality traits, or beliefs).
• Present to the class the bag they have decorated.
• Share with the class one trait from inside the bag.
• Discuss the differences between what others seem to be and what they really are.

Discussion

The concluding discussion led by the teacher could be enlarged to encourage students to develop their hidden or private attributes and to encourage students to accept differences in others more readily.

Materials

Paper bags, magazines, newspapers, glue