Collective Memory Cultural Story. Students will write a paper of no more than three pages.  Students will write their own cultural story as it pertains to your collective memory.  The first part could cover the following:  What event/situation/experience/role-model/memory first defined you as to who you are as part of a cultural/racial/gender/social/etc. group?  What memory(ies) first defined who you are today?  Were they positive/negative/both?  What transpired? When? How? Who were the key players? How did you know you were Asian? Black? Hispanic? Native American? Middle Easterner? White? Etc?  Your story may take any direction you wish to recount/relive and retell.  The second part should be a reflective part on what you wrote, recalled and what memories were brought to surface.  This portion should explain your feelings, emotions, thoughts, ideas, and things you learned from writing your collective memory cultural story. In short, what did you learn about yourself that you had not thought about before or considered?