“I Am...” Poster

10 Points

Directions: Welcome to our classroom. Your classmates and I would like to know more about you. Not just how strong your reading or writing might be, but who you are. Over the course of the next four days, I want you to create a poster that tells readers who you are, your likes and dislikes, and your unique background and goals.

1. Pick ten questions you would like to answer from the list below (feel free to create and answer a question or two that I may not have thought of).
2. In complete sentences, respond to each question. Your answers should be clear, understandable, and should not leave anyone guessing which question you were answering.
3. While not all of my students are artists, I expect every student to give their best effort towards personalizing and clearly depicting their ideas on their poster. Feel free to use the limited art resources in the class, but if you feel less than artistic, consider collages from magazines and printed pictures you may have taken. Art should be representative of answers.
4. An hour and a half class time will be provided, but if more time is needed to complete your work, please take your poster home for completion.

Questions:

• What do you like best about your family?
• What is the best thing about your friends?
• If you could travel in time to any point in the past, when would you travel? Why?
• Who is your personal hero? Why?
• If you could ask your future self a question, what would it be?
• How do you want to be remembered?
• Are you an introvert or an extrovert? How do you show that trait?
• What is your favorite book/movie/video game? Why?
• What is your dream job? Why?
• If your house was burning down around you, what single possession would you save? Why?
• What is the craziest thing you've ever done?
• What makes you happiest?
• Why do you work hard?
• What is your spirit animal? Why?
• What is your favorite subject? Why?
• What do you look forward to this year?
• What do you do in your free time?
• If you play video games, what is it that you enjoy about them? Is it the strategy, the team work, the independence, the isolation, the ability to exercise your imagination, or something else?
• What club, real or imagined, would you like to be a part of? Why?
• What is a skill you want to master? Why?
• Are you a dog person or a cat person? What made you decide?
• What is your favorite way to spend a day?
• What's your favorite sport? Why should other people pay attention to it?
• Do you have a superstition? Perhaps something that you believe might make you luckier, something that might make your favorite team win, or even something more fun and unusual?
• If you had to pick between two super powers, the ability to fly unaided through the sky or invisibility at will, which would you pick and why?
• What is your greatest fear? Explain.
• What do you wish your teachers knew about you?
• Pick a destination. Where would you travel and why?
• If you are new to our school, consider the following questions: Where are you from? What was the best thing about where you used to go to school?