Universal Themes
Instructions for each word or phrase: 1) Define each term in your own words. 2) Focus on your own experiences or prior knowledge and write an example for each term.
- Abandonment
- Abuse
- Acceptance
- Acceptance of a Handicap
- Accepting Change
- Adjusting to a New Life
- Adoption
- Anger
- Appearances
- Appreciation of Nature
- Being Gifted
- Belonging
- Betrayal
- Bondage
- Bravery
- Brotherhood
- Bullies
- Caring for the Environment
- Censorship
- Challenges
- Change
- Coming of Age
- Commitment
- Communication
- Community
- Cooperation
- Cooperation/Teamwork
- Coping with Loss
- Courage
- Courage and Honor
- Cultural Diversity
- Customs and Traditions
- Dealing with Handicaps
- Death and Dying
- Denial
- Determination
- Discrimination
- Diversity
- Dreams
- Effects of War
- Emotions
- Ethical Dilemmas
- Euthanasia
- Faith
- Family & Relationships
- Fear
- Fear and Anxiety
- Fear and Courage
- Feelings
- Forgiveness
- Freedom
- Friendship
- Gender Issues
- Genealogy
- Getting Along
- Good vs. Evil
- Gratitude
- Grief
- Growing Up
- Guilt
- Guns
- Heroes
- Heroism
- History
- Honesty
- Hope
- Humor
- Immigrants
- Initiation
- Innocence and Experience
- Intergenerational Relationships
- Invincibility
- Jealousy
- Leadership
- Learning about ourselves and others
- Living in Today's Society
- Loneliness
- Love
- Loyalty
- Making Choices
- Media
- Memories
- Morals & Values
- Patriotism
- Peace
- Peer Pressure
- Poverty
- Prejudice
- Pride
- Propaganda
- Racism
- Rage and Anger
- Resourcefulness
- Responsibility
- Revenge
- Rights
- Sacrifice
- Safety & Security
- Self-discovery
- Self-esteem
- Sense of Community
- Sense of Self
- Separation and Loss
- Social Change
- Survival
- Taking a Stand
- Teamwork
- Trust
- Values
- Violence
- Westward Expansion
