Self-Text Questions About Children

3. Examine the cover of the novel. What images do you see? How do you think the images are connected to the story?

9. OPINION: I believe this book was written with compassion and commitment. It gives you a

5. How much of your self-identity is formed through your interactions with other people? To what extent do you think your identity is determined by your culture and by family, friends and so on? Please give reasons

2. Do you think most readers are apt to respond to Eighner's essay with sympathy? Pity? Impatience? Contempt? Disgust? How do you react? Why?

24. According to our textbook, while groups are found in all societies, societies differ according to the degree

A poem which explores the feeling of loss is ‘Visiting Hour’ by Norman MacCaig. In this powerful and moving poem, the writer uses techniques such as imagery, symbolism and word choice to effectively grip the reader and keeps them with him throughout the poem.

Directions: To give you a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the novel, answer the following questions for Part Three in complete sentences and use a different colored font.

Identify the types of diversity that exist within your local community, looking at the range of differences in relation to the following:

2. Which passage below comes closest to giving the reader the feeling he is experiencing the event? In what ways?

3. Explain in your own words why ignorance is NOT bliss, having read what the author has to say about this. Give specific examples from the reading and relate them to your own life. (You are here getting an education, so I have to imagine this should be important to you as a student!)

Describe the community, including demographics and aspects of diversity such as age, race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, cultural, religion and sexual orientation.

13. Have you read the author’s other books? Can you discern a similarity (in theme, writing style, structure, etc.) between them, or are they completely different?

4. What do these details tell you about the writer’s assumptions about the knowledge and experience of readers?

Who are you? Who am I? These are questions that we all ponder at some point or another in our lives. As human beings we are seemingly inundated with the desire to classify and categorise. We are constantly defining and analysing the differences that we observe in the world, it seems only natural that we would apply this method of classification to our position within our society. More specifically, we want to understand our social identities and this can be achieved by acknowledging which groups we identify most with.

A. Media has a huge impact on how people truly see themselves, particularly in women and young female teens. Reality television has made the standards of beauty quite high these days and there is a definite change in society’s view on what is truly beautiful. Turning off the TV has simply become too hard when it comes to reality TV shows