1. In complete sentences, answer the following questions:
How has society shaped who you are? Think about your attitude, your personality, traits you’ve acquired over time. How has the world you’ve grown up in formed who you are right now? Positively or negatively?
Do you wish society was different? How so?

2. In complete sentences, answer the following questions:
3. What is identity?
4. If you could, how would you change your identity? What kind of person do you want to be but cannot? Why can you not be that person?
5. Does society have a positive or negative effect on shaping identities?

3. Respond to the following video
What point is the video trying to get across? Does it do so well? Why/how?
Do you believe the video accurately displays identity, how it is shaped, formed, created, etc.?

4. Society vs. Identity
Here in the United States, we are constantly bombarded with messages about what our lives should be like. We see advertisements and TV shows that seem to show us what “normal” people’s lives are like. If, for example, a child grows up knowing that his family does not have all the things that “normal” people have, he may develop a self-identity that is based around the idea that he is poor and deprived.
In addition, the way we are treated by others helps to define how we see ourselves. A child who is constantly praised by her teachers for being smart will often come to define herself in that way. Meanwhile, another child who is praised for her athletic ability will define herself very differently.
In these ways and many others, our surroundings can help to create our self-identity.

5. Create your mask assignment 
Just as everyone in the video we watched wore a mask that represented their identity, I would like you to create a mask of your own that represents how you see your own personal identity. This could be about who you are, what you want to be as a person or simply what society has made you. The entire mask must be covered/filled in with design, color, images, etc. On the back of the sheet, explain how your mask fits your identity.