What’s in my bag?

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Objective:

To define your own self-concept and use objects from your own life to describe how culture shapes your self-concept.

Instructions:

Pease select three items of significance to you that help explain who you are and your culture.  For example, an Italian cookbook, or certain type of music, clothing, skateboards, poetry, journals, etc.  It can be ANYTHING (that is appropriate), there are no limits. As long as you can demonstrate that your item is significant to your self-concept, that is fine!

• In your own words, define self-concept.
• Describe your self-concept
• Tell us about your own culture (remember- culture is not just about race/ethnicity, make this your own!) How does your own culture shape who you are now? For example, WHY do you love Italian food or cooking, WHY did you choose a certain job or have the hobbies that you do, do they travel?
• Now tell us about the three items! For each item, please present the following:
  • Describe each item and why it is significant to you
  • How is each item related to your self-concept?
  • How is each item related to your culture?
• Take a picture of the three items (or three separate pictures if needed) EMBED the images into this discussion assignment
• Comment on another classmates items. What did you find interesting? Do you have something in common? Please be detailed and thoughtful in your response.

Submission

Please use the provided text box (preferred) to submit your answers or submit a word document or pdf.

Grading

You will be graded using the rubric provided.

Resources:

How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as a student? (Links to an external site.)

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Canvas Student Guides, Discussion Topic List

Example of a submission that received full points:

Self concept is how I see myself and how others see me. My own personal self concept is that I’m nice, handsome, loving, athletic, generous, a bit lazy, hardworking and creative. My culture is a Sicilian American, Iraq combat Veteran. I am athletic, an activist, a cook, a homesteader, a dedicated husband and an artist. Being an activist a Veteran and homesteader are all rooted in my desire to live in a better world. I am an artist because I love to create and be expressive.

The first of my three items is my stock pot, I travel a lot and since I pack light, a stock pot doesn’t travel well, it is often the first thing I buy when in a new city. This is important to me because its the only way to make gravy (red sauce) which is the staple ingredient for many of the Sicilian dishes I cook and eat.

The second is my rollerblades. Growing up in NY, traffic is heavy and public transportation is crowded. It was my main source of transportation as well as participating in playing street hockey with my friends. As an adult I love it as a way to stay in shape. It’s interesting to see it becoming popular these days in California. For a long time, friends would mess with me because I wasn’t skateboarding.

The third object I chose is my sketchpad. I love to draw, not only is it a great way to express myself creatively it is very therapeutic. I can spend hours drawing not realizing how much time has gone by. When I was living in Argentina for a period, drawing helped me embed myself into the artistic culture in Buenos Aires.