Thursday, January 8, 2009

The Primal Teen - Page 1-22

Comments:
Parents must be scared to see their children grow up.
Children change as they grow older.
The way teenagers act has to do with their brain.
The brain change over time.
Teenagers gets angry at their parents easily as they get older.

Questions:
Why do teenagers change after they hit puberty?
What can parents do to help them?
Does it really have to do with the brain?
Will some teenagers stay the same after puberty?

Vocabulary:
Inexplicably -
not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained
Ferocious - savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel
Besmirched - To make dirty; soil

Literary Terms:
Simile - "Whats is a frontal lobe supposed to look like at age 12?"
characterization - "Inside the teenagers brains smart ones, shy ones, silly ones"

Overview Sentence:
Parents are worried about their children's and how they act.

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