In this assignment, you will demonstrate

SELF CONCEPT: your image of who you are strengths, weaknesses, abilities and limitations.

Perceived Self: how you see you.”

Presenting Self: how you present yourself to others.

Your SELF CONCEPT develops in many ways: 

*Looking-glass self: you gain information based on how people
(significant others) behave/react toward you.
*Social comparisons: compare yourself to peers, older siblings, etc.
*Cultural teachings: parents, extended family, religious leaders

You will speak about your PERCEIVED and PRESENTING selves.
You will create a poster board that will serve as a cheat sheet and visual aid to visually present, with words, pictures or both, how you see yourself and how others see you.

PRESENTING SELF
Interview friends, family and coworkers to find out how you present yourself to them.
Ask them for words that describe you with examples of why they think this word describes you. Ex: organized” because you always know where everything is in your room and you like to help others around you stay organized.

Put these 5-10 words on one side of your poster.

PERCEIVED SELF
Brainstorm for words describing how you see yourself
Select examples that help illustrate the above words
Add these words to your Perceived Self side of your poster. You can include pictures to illustrate the traits you placed on the board.
Ex: The word Studious” with a picture of books or the library. Then you might say I take my studies seriously and am pursuing a degree in Nursing.”

POSTER BOARD
One side = Perceived self Clearly marked/labeled
front of the posterboard.
Other side = Presenting self Clearly marked/labeled
back of the posterboard.
Speak for one minute about each side of the poster.
Thirty second grace period if you run over a bit.
Practice what you plan to say so you know if you need to add or delete information from the speech to meet the time requirement.
Show the 5 audience members at the beginning AND end of the speech. Showing the audience does not fulfull part of the 2 minute time requirement.

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