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1. ANALYZING A POTENTIAL EMPLOYEE

(a) Imagine you are an employer or work coordinator starting a job search for a new employee.  Make up a company name, your service or product, and a type of job you need to fill.  Make up a list of what the job requires, and make another list describing the qualities of the type of person you need for this job.  
    
(b) Next, make up three very different types of people.  Then pretend that they have already completed interviews and sent you their applications. 
      
(c) Finally, analyze each one using the two lists you made of job requirements and the qualities in the type of person you need.

     
2. ANALYZING USING A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW

(a) As a group or as an individual, imagine that you are a celebrity politician, business leader, or entertainment star who is making an important or unusual speech on a subject of your choice. Write the speech (100+ w.), making several points. 

(b) If you are working in a group, pass this speech to another group.  If you are working as an individual, pass it to another individual (if you are in a classroom).  

(c) Read the speech you have received. Then summarize three or four main ideas in it (1 sent. each).

(d) Next, imagine you are a person with an entirely different, unusual, different, or unique point of view in society (e.g., an organic farmer, a homeless people, a Martian invader, rich royalty, etc.). Summarize your point of view about society and life in general (50+ w.).

(e) Finally, examine each of the three or four main ideas in "c"--the speech you read--but do so from your new point of view, in "d": write 50+ words for each point in "c," explaining how you would see it from this new point of view.  

(f) Read your results to the class.

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