What is an American?

What does it mean to be an "American"?

The answer to this question is not simple, and has many layers. This is our "Essential Question" for the entire year.

Let's brainstorm!

• What makes up the American Identity? 
• What defines American? 
• What do Americans want? 
• What words, thoughts, opinions, or even images that come to mind when we think of the “American Identity”?