1. What are your general impressions of playing the game?
2. What kinds of stories were elicited? What kinds were not?
3. How did you feel while playing the game?
4. How did you decide what to share?
5. What did you learn about the other players? Were there similarities between your stories? Difference? In content and/or style?
6. What elements (i.e., social, cultural, material) are necessary for the game to progress?
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Assignment 2
1.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story (19min)
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1. What is Adichie’s profession?
2. What is the takeaway message of the talk?
3. How is her life story weaved into the message?
4. What is the danger of “a single story”?
5. How can we encourage multiplicity of voice in stories?
B. Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (21min)
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1. What is Brown’s profession?
2. What is the takeaway message of the talk?
3. How is her life story weaved into the message?
4. Why does Brown say we (humans) are here?
5. How do personal narratives and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves promote empathy and emotional resilience?
6. What are some connections between Adichie’s and Brown’s messages in their talks?