Theme3Questions

• What experiences of listening to, reading, and/or writing stories from our own young lives were most meaningful, and why? How have those experiences connected to our efforts to design our lives?
• How can young people know how to design their own lives when they may not know yet what lives they want in the first place? Does designing a life mean having to think ahead to the future and/or specific goals, or can design work in the "here and now"?
• What models and examples from the literature for young people present the possibilities of designing a life?
• How might young people regard stories as a way to express themselves, solve problems, assert agency, make sense of complexity, explore identity, and connect thought to action in the interest of the design of their lives?
• What resources, interactions, and principles and practices of creativity inform and facilitate the process of developing a storyboard that will that will serve as a foundation of a book for young people about the design of one's own life?