Snapshots of Your Cultural Journey As a Traveler on a Path to Cultural Awareness, You Will

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Snapshots of Your Cultural Journey As a traveler on a path to cultural awareness, you will encounter texts, cultures, and ideas that cause you to reconsider your opinions and to enhance your level of expertise. Your portfolio will be a tool that will enable you to capture snapshots of your journey as a reader, writer, researcher, and student of culture.

Read each of the following statements and consider how often it is a true statement for you personally. Fill in the blanks next to each statement according to the following code:

A = Always True

U = Usually True

S = Sometimes True

R = Rarely True

N = Never True

______I know that my culture influences my opinions.

______I am interested in exploring other cultures and appreciating what they mean in my life.

______I can explain my own culture and compare it to a variety of other cultures.

______When I encounter a difficult text, I know how to make it make sense.

______I feel good about reading something new because I’ll find a way to connect it with more familiar texts.

______When I am reading, I am paying attention, asking questions, and visualizing events.

______I am able to write for a variety of purposes and audiences.

______Communicating ideas through writing is a process or series of steps.

______When I have an idea or opinion to express, I consider the type of writing that will best explain my ideas to the reader.

______If there is a topic with which I am unfamiliar, I know where to go to find out more information.

______When I find information about a topic, I know how to determine the reliability of various sources.

______I can take information from a number of sources and put it together in order to reach a conclusion.