WRITE AWAY

• Think about a time when learning more about someone helped you understand why they ACTED THE WAY THEY DID. DID IT HELP YOU BREAK DOWN A NEGATIVE IMPRESSION?

To Kill a mockingbird

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE OUR MORAL GROWTH? WHAT KINDS OF EXPERIENCES HELP US LEARN HOW TO JUDGE RIGHT FROM WRONG?

What is IDENTITY?

IDENTITY:
Our sense of who we are.

THat sense IS
SHAPED BY
THE GROUPS to which we belong-- the ways we are similar and different from others

TO WHAT EXTENT DO WE DETERMINE OUR OWN IDENTITIES? WHAT ROLE DOES our environment PLAY?

our environment:
GEOGRAPHY
TIME PERIOD
SOCIETY
THE "MORAL ENVIRONMENT"

IDENTITY and CHOICES

How does our identity influence the choices we make? How does analyzing CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE help us understand the choices THEY MAKE?

IDENTITY AND ENVIRONMENT (setting)

HOW DOES ANALYZING SETTING HELP US UNDERSTAND THE choices characters in LITERATURE MAKE?

How does The "MORAL UNIVERSE" in WHICH WE LIVE Affect the choices we make?

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