1.     You are a young minister speaking to your church after a gang violence incident.  Deliver your speech about togetherness.

2.     You are Malcolm X dictating your autobiography to Alex Haley.  Describe (dialogue) how your identity changed through life.

3.     You are Audre Lorde.  In a poem to your critics, explain your position on the antiwar, civil rights and feminist movements.

4.     You are as you are now.  Design a web of important people within your community.  Connect them to you and each other.

5.     You are a young parent.  In your journal, predict what factors will influence your child’s ethnic and cultural identity.

6.     You are an ethnomusicologist.  Write an article to your peers explaining the role cultural identity plays in making folk music.

7.     You are Black Elk.  In interviews with your grandson, explain what it means to be Lakota and live in American society.

8.     You are Maya Angelou.  Explain in an editorial what you meant by, “There is no agony like bearing an untold story in you.”

9.     You are a young Hispanic girl.  In an invitation to your friends, explain the importance of your Quinceañera ceremony.

10. You are Maxine Hong Kingston.  In a response to a book critic, describe your experience on being Asian and a woman.