Us, Them, Ourselves

Compare/Contrast yourself to one migrant, with whom you identify the most.

1. Summarize this character’s personality with thorough detail
o Provide at least 2 quotations to show this character.
o Quotations should be 2-6 sentences long.
o Quotations should help us understand the migrant’s character, values, choices, motives, hardships, and responses to situations.
o Quotations must be formatted correctly, introduced, and
summarized.

2. Describe what you have in common with this migrant
o How are you, your family, or life situations similar?
o How are you different?
o Use detailed stories about yourself to demonstrate your similarities and differences (who, what, when, where, why, how)

Compare/Contrast one migrant to another.
1. Provide 2 quotations to show the character of your second migrant.
o Quotations should be 2-6 sentences long.
o Quotations should help us understand the migrant’s character, values,
choices, motives, hardships, and responses to situations.
o Quotations must be formatted correctly, introduced, and summarized.
2. Explain how these migrants’ lives, personalities, values, choices, and motives are similar and different in important ways.

1. How does reading about these migrant’s lives make you feel?
2. What do you like or admire in these characters?
3. What do you dislike or see as negative about these characters?
4. What about their lives or characters surprises you?
5. What do their stories teach you about your own life?