Assignment: True Colors by Chelsea Walton

High school juniors, and peers to one another for an average of about three (four, five) years now, I think it's safe enough to assume that we've come to know and understand ourselves and each other pretty well. We can all probably identify who a person is friends with, whether they're involved in any extra curriculars, what their strengths and weaknesses might be, their style of dress, maybe even where we see them in ten, fifteen years.
This familiarity with a person definitely extends to personality. But our perception of someone's personality can be harder to articulate than "I bet they're a doctor one day" or "She looks really cute with her hair down like that." Someone can be fun-loving, or intimidating, or goofy. But I've always thought personality to be a characteristic of so much more depth than a collection of word like that can express. And Rach has been trying to teach me how to interpret people as colors. In class we've even studied visual literacy and what colors can represent or evoke.
In short,-- how's this for the Backdoor Approach?-- I think it'd be really cute for everyone to write about the person they sit next to in English class. Our school, even our little program, is as different and as similar as the colors of the rainbow. And these colors can be used to objectify something as layered/multi-dimensional as personality.
And really, I'd just be interested to hear what people come up with for each other.

by Chelsea Walton

Since you're all sitting next to people you wanted to sit next to-- I expect nice things. Oh, and don't lace your nice-ities with irony either. I'm not gonna assign who writes about whom ("you must discuss the person on your left or right") but I do expect a level of spontaneity rather than a the planned approach of "you write about me and I'll write about you."

I'll be playin' with the previously established due dates-- this one is due by Thursday March 18th.