Narrative Identity & The Missionary's Misadventures

What is a key part of identity development?

• Cooking

• Storytelling

• Traveling

• Reading

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CCSS.W.9-10.3

How do we make sense of our constantly changing lives?

• By ignoring them

• Through storytelling

• By writing them down

• Through meditation

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CCSS.W.9-10.3

What does a self-expressive narrative help us create?

• A fictional identity

• A fragmented identity

• A temporary identity

• A unified/coherent identity

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.3B

What is narrative identity?

• An external story others create about you

• An internalized story you create about yourself

• A story you read about others

• A fictional story you write

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CCSS.W.9-10.3

What is group membership equated to?

• Personal identity

• Social identity

• Narrative identity

• Individual identity

How do we co-construct our own life stories?

• We are shaped by one important source: social

• We choose who we want to socialize with

• We are influenced by many sources: social, personal, cultural, family

• We don't. Our life stories are reflections of only ourselves.

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CCSS.SL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.2

These carry expectations that we can accept or challenge.

• labels

• narratives

• stories

• conformity

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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.1

"Identity is complex and fluid". What does this mean?

• It means identity is a single idea with lots of options.

• It means that identity is more than one thing and can change.

• It means that identity never changes.

• It means that identity is hard to understand.

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

Group membership is important, but we still have the ability to control our own actions and decisions. What is this called?

• Coherence

• Context

• Complexity

• Agency

Define COHERENCE

• continuously changing

• logical and whole

• adaptable

• easily peer pressured

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CCSS.W.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.4