1 - Brainstorm adjectives that could be used to describe your personality.
(The more the better. Here is a list to work from and to inspire you: personality adjectives)
2 - Star the three adjectives which seem to best represent your personality (kind of the like the primary colors of your personality, which would the red, yellow, and blue adjectives be?).
3 - Find a partner and discuss the adjectives you chose with them (why you chose them, how those elements interact to make up your personality, stories that illustrate how you display those elements). Each partner will have two minutes to talk while the other just listens (a little silence and time to think is good).
After everyone had a chance to talk with their partner, we came back together and used a chart to help us determine more specifically what each person's personality expression was. To do this we used the four categories of the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator (see the categories here).
Next, we looked at what each person chose within each category. Our results were as follows:
Extraversion - 5 people / Introversion - 4 people
Sensing - 4 people / Intuition - 5 people
Thinking - 7 people / Feeling - 2 people
Judging - 4 people / Perceiving - 4 people (1 person right in the middle)
Everyone then looked at the four categories they had selected and read the corresponding personality type according to the Myers-Briggs type indicator description (type indicator descriptions available here)
Everyone then responded to the following prompt based on their results and the provided description:
Next, I handed out several papers for individuals' homework this weekend related to the Myers-Briggs test and some questions to help guide your reading and thinking with the article (see handouts below).
Note: We didn't do the test in class, we just looked at and thought about their categories and personality types. If you'd like to get a sense for what the test is like try out this free version of the Myers-Briggs.
Handouts:
SOAPS explanation
Reading: "Goodbye to the MBTI, the Fad that Won't Die"
Guided Response Questions (includes extensions questions for a possible 100)
Extension Reading: "Measuring the MBTI... and Coming Up Short"
Homework:
Read the article "Goodbye to the MBTI, the Fad that Won't Die" and respond to the guided response questions (see handouts above).
Have a writers journal to use in English ready for Monday.
