17. Prison
1) Have you ever been to visit a prison? If so, what was it like? If not,
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what do you think a prison is like? What do you think life is like for prisoners?
2) Did you watch the show Prison Break? If so, do you think that is an accurate representation of what prison is like? Why or why not? 3) What do you think is the youngest age a person should be allowed to be sent to prison? Why do you think that’s the right age? What makes a person old enough to go to prison or too young for prison?
4) What do you think about capital punishment? If you could decide which crimes were punishable by death, which ones would you choose? Why?
18. Gender
1) When do you think a person changes from being a girl into being a woman? Is this change physical, mental, emotional, social? What characteristics do you think of as being very feminine?
2) When do you think a boy becomes a man? Are there any rites of passage in your culture that demonstrate a person has become an adult in the social sense? What characteristics are masculine?
3) What personality traits or characteristics do you think are just neutral- neither masculine nor feminine? Do you think some people have more neutral characteristics than masculine or feminine ones?
4) If you could be born again as the opposite gender, would you choose to?
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