- What event changed your understanding of yourself, or that of someone you know or knew?
- A Silver Lining: Often something that happens to us seems bad at the time, but appears later to have been a good thing, after all. Tell the story of a time an apparently negative event turned out for the best.
- A realization: Think about a time when you experienced a realization. This could be anything from understanding a complicated math equation to gaining a deeper understanding of a philosophical issue or life situation.
Goal: Write a nonfiction narrative about an experience that showed the importance of rites of passage in connection to an event or heritage which changed your or their life through the research you conducted or texts and videos you read and viewed.