2.  Everyone is unique.  Different in your own way.  What makes you different?

3.  Traits passed on through genes from generation to generation.  Include:  Physical (Appearance)  Medical  You have no control over these!!!

4. PHYSICAL  Objects around you.  Where you live. PSYCHOLOGICAL  Attitudes expressed by people around you.

5.  Behaviors  Beliefs  Languages  Passed from generation to generation  Foods  Holiday traditions

6.  Native Americans: original Americans  European Americans:  Asian-Americans  African-Americans  Hispanics

7.  Your personality results from a special blending of your heredity, environment, and cultural heritage.  Personality is the total of all the behavioral qualities and traits that make up an individual.  Includes: feelings, thoughts, speech, way you relate to others.

8.  Inner traits such as conscience, moral strength, and social attitudes.  Begins in toddler years.  Inner control that tells you to reform to societal norms.  Empathy means you understand how others feel even when their own personal feelings may differ.

9.  View you have of your self.  Largely influenced by the people around you and the way you interpreted their behaviors toward you.  Positive= see yourself as lovable and worthwhile.  More likely to grow personality if you have a positive self-concept.

10.  Be realistic about your expectations  Realize no one is perfect.  Don’t be afraid to fail.  Look for positive relationships  Find things you enjoy doing, and do them.  Develop a sense of humor!

11.  How you feel about yourself.  Your self-worth  If you feel you are worth while person, it will show in your relationships with others.  Those who lack self-esteem think little of themselves.

12.  In mid-evil times, families developed a cress, or shield to represent their families.  You are to create a shield/cress today that represents you as an individual.  Do not put your name on the front. We are going to hang them up, and do something else with them.  Please make them colorful, you may even cut them out if you want.