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![$5 Million Survivor Challenge A popular YouTube channel is offering to pay you five million dollars if you move to a remote island for five years. There will be no communication with the outside world, and you will live a simple life, relying on nature for food and shelter. You will have an emergency button that will get you a helicopter rescue within an hour, but you would lose all the money if you have to use it. Would you accept the offer? Share and explain your thinking, making sure to use relevant details and examples to support what you have to say. Narrative option: tell a story (true or fictional) involving someone who decides to try this. Argumentative/persuasive option: make the case for whether or not this would be a good decision for someone to make. Self-Confidence Scale [A scale from 0 to 5 with 0 labeled “No self-confidence at all. Easily embarrassed, fears failure, lack of healthy boundaries, lots of self-doubt and negative thinking” and 5 labeled “Too overly self-confident, full of themselves, arrogant, entitled, feeling like they deserve special treatment or attention.”] Where do you think you are on the self-confidence scale? Where do you imagine others perceive you on this scale? Where do you think most people are? Where do you think the ideal spot on the scale is? Where do you want to be? How do you think you can get there? If someone else was trying to have better, healthier self confidence, what advice would you share with them? Could you give that same advice to yourself? What does the scale over simplify or not account for? Share your thoughts on the self-confidence scale. This writing prompt is from unicornwriting.com Applicable Common Core Writing Standards: CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.W.6, CCRA.W.10](https://i0.wp.com/unicornwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Unicorn-Writing-Prompts-new-template.001.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1)
![Self-Confidence Scale [A scale from 0 to 5 with 0 labeled “No self-confidence at all. Easily embarrassed, fears failure, lack of healthy boundaries, lots of self-doubt and negative thinking” and 5 labeled “Too overly self-confident, full of themselves, arrogant, entitled, feeling like they deserve special treatment or attention.”] Where do you think you are on the self-confidence scale? Where do you imagine others perceive you on this scale? Where do you think most people are? Where do you think the ideal spot on the scale is? Where do you want to be? How do you think you can get there? If someone else was trying to have better, healthier self confidence, what advice would you share with them? Could you give that same advice to yourself? What does the scale over simplify or not account for? Share your thoughts on the self-confidence scale. This writing prompt is from unicornwriting.com Applicable Common Core Writing Standards: CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.W.6, CCRA.W.10](https://i0.wp.com/unicornwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Unicorn-Writing-Prompts-new-template.001.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1)
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