Essay
Limited Adolescence
Elias Foutz
Humanities 10
Lori Fischer
Your days are limited. Especially during adolescence. Why would you waste them? Eventually you will be an adult and regret everything you didn't do; so why aren't you making the most out of it? In the beginning of this unit weread a paper called Brainstorm on this subject. One of my main takeaway quotes was,“Brian changes during early teen years for novelty seeking, Social engagement, Increased emotional interaction, and creative interaction.” Brainstorm Page 7, Paragraph 3.We were taught from a young age that adolescence is strictly a time of physical and hormonal change. This new definition has answered some questions for me. In my early tennis I suddenly became compelled to hang out with peers my age more often. I usually wasn’t social at all when I moved to Durango at the age of 9. It completely changed me socially. I was confused because I wasn't taught that I was going to want to hang out with friends more. I was taught that I might get depression instead.
In an interview with my mom about her adolescence in the 80s and how it was different to what I am experiencing today, she said,”Let their kids live it to the fullest. Adolescents should make the right choices to live the most.” My mom said she felt like she could have lived more, especially in the 80s when iphones didn’t exist and the only security cameras were at the bank and Wal-Mart. It shows that there are things in our way. But we can still live with this, Even with some things in our way. In class we talked about technology and how it can help and limit Adolescents. Adolescents can boost their education with the entire knowledge of the world at their fingertips. But technology can become less social.
When I was in 6th grade I didn't really try to make friends after an incident with an ex friend in 5th grade. We were good friends and we slept over at each other's houses. We shared very similar interests in star wars and legos. In 5th grade things started changing. After a project we worked on he started to avoid me and hang out with another kid who had made fun of me a lot in the past. He said he got “contaminated” if I got within 3 feet of him. It hurt me and I had a very hard time making friends in 6th grade because of it. I would hang out with my only other friend that went to that school. The next year we started to hang out with a clique of kids.
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People would often act friendly but you could tell it was very fake. They were super friendly in public but never wanted to hang out after school. Eventually in 8th grade I found a Clique of people I hung out with who shared a similar interest in humor. We would laugh at recesses with dumb jokes and stories. And listen to music on the corner of the track under the shade of a cottonwood .It was fun to bond with those people in math class when we finished early and it seems to be a golden period if my childhood
Adolescence is a golden period of human interaction and relationships. Because kids are responsible to do things on their own like go downtown and hang out with friends but not old enough to have to worry about paying bills or working everyday. I interviewed my mom on the subject and she said,”kids didn't have to grow up as quickly as they used to 150 years ago.” She said that kids in the 19th century immediately went to work in farms or mines. Giving this period and highschool ment kids could get better educated and live more.
When my mom said live in the moment as much as you can. Even if you have to break a couple small rules. Adolescence was invented along with highschool for education for the poor and so kids would grow up slower. This is important so we can live to the fullest and not spend the prime of our lives in a steel mill. My mom said she was working two jobs in the summer at my age. I worked one for two months. Most kids I know weren’t even working.
This period is golden for developments and for living. Why would you waste it? Go all out, break the rules if you have to. Make friends, lose friends, fall in love. Listen to your parents,disobey your parents. What will you do to live?
Siegel, Dainel. Brainstorm: Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain.
Jeremy B Teacher/Penguin
2015,pp 1-37
Elias Foutz
Humanities 10
Lori Fischer
Your days are limited. Especially during adolescence. Why would you waste them? Eventually you will be an adult and regret everything you didn't do; so why aren't you making the most out of it? In the beginning of this unit weread a paper called Brainstorm on this subject. One of my main takeaway quotes was,“Brian changes during early teen years for novelty seeking, Social engagement, Increased emotional interaction, and creative interaction.” Brainstorm Page 7, Paragraph 3.We were taught from a young age that adolescence is strictly a time of physical and hormonal change. This new definition has answered some questions for me. In my early tennis I suddenly became compelled to hang out with peers my age more often. I usually wasn’t social at all when I moved to Durango at the age of 9. It completely changed me socially. I was confused because I wasn't taught that I was going to want to hang out with friends more. I was taught that I might get depression instead.
In an interview with my mom about her adolescence in the 80s and how it was different to what I am experiencing today, she said,”Let their kids live it to the fullest. Adolescents should make the right choices to live the most.” My mom said she felt like she could have lived more, especially in the 80s when iphones didn’t exist and the only security cameras were at the bank and Wal-Mart. It shows that there are things in our way. But we can still live with this, Even with some things in our way. In class we talked about technology and how it can help and limit Adolescents. Adolescents can boost their education with the entire knowledge of the world at their fingertips. But technology can become less social.
When I was in 6th grade I didn't really try to make friends after an incident with an ex friend in 5th grade. We were good friends and we slept over at each other's houses. We shared very similar interests in star wars and legos. In 5th grade things started changing. After a project we worked on he started to avoid me and hang out with another kid who had made fun of me a lot in the past. He said he got “contaminated” if I got within 3 feet of him. It hurt me and I had a very hard time making friends in 6th grade because of it. I would hang out with my only other friend that went to that school. The next year we started to hang out with a clique of kids.
.
People would often act friendly but you could tell it was very fake. They were super friendly in public but never wanted to hang out after school. Eventually in 8th grade I found a Clique of people I hung out with who shared a similar interest in humor. We would laugh at recesses with dumb jokes and stories. And listen to music on the corner of the track under the shade of a cottonwood .It was fun to bond with those people in math class when we finished early and it seems to be a golden period if my childhood
Adolescence is a golden period of human interaction and relationships. Because kids are responsible to do things on their own like go downtown and hang out with friends but not old enough to have to worry about paying bills or working everyday. I interviewed my mom on the subject and she said,”kids didn't have to grow up as quickly as they used to 150 years ago.” She said that kids in the 19th century immediately went to work in farms or mines. Giving this period and highschool ment kids could get better educated and live more.
When my mom said live in the moment as much as you can. Even if you have to break a couple small rules. Adolescence was invented along with highschool for education for the poor and so kids would grow up slower. This is important so we can live to the fullest and not spend the prime of our lives in a steel mill. My mom said she was working two jobs in the summer at my age. I worked one for two months. Most kids I know weren’t even working.
This period is golden for developments and for living. Why would you waste it? Go all out, break the rules if you have to. Make friends, lose friends, fall in love. Listen to your parents,disobey your parents. What will you do to live?
Siegel, Dainel. Brainstorm: Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain.
Jeremy B Teacher/Penguin
2015,pp 1-37
This essay has helped me grow as a writer using show not tell techniques I learned about while writing this essay. “In 5th grade things started changing. After a project we worked on he started to avoid me and hang out with another kid who had made fun of me a lot in the past.” This is from my 1st draft essay where I told the viewer about a bad experience I had with a now EX friend. After many Revisions I was left with this,” When I was in 6th grade I didn't really try to make friends after an incident with an ex friend in 5th grade. We were good friends and we slept over at each other's houses. We shared very similar interests in star wars and Legos. In 5th grade things started changing. After a project we worked on he started to avoid me and hang out with another kid who had made fun of me a lot in the past. He said he got “contaminated” if I got within 3 feet of him. It hurt me and I had a very hard time making friends in 6th grade because of it. This tactic helped to make my essay more descriptive and longer.
My largest takeaways from this project are how I viewed adolescence and how it changed my view. “Brian changes during early teen years for novelty seeking, Social engagement, Increased emotional interaction, and creative interaction.” Brainstorm Page 7, Paragraph 3.We were taught from a young age that adolescence is strictly a time of physical and hormonal change.” When I was younger all of the talk we had in health class were about physical and mental changes. But nothing about social changes. This helped to deepen my understanding of adolescence.
My largest takeaways from this project are how I viewed adolescence and how it changed my view. “Brian changes during early teen years for novelty seeking, Social engagement, Increased emotional interaction, and creative interaction.” Brainstorm Page 7, Paragraph 3.We were taught from a young age that adolescence is strictly a time of physical and hormonal change.” When I was younger all of the talk we had in health class were about physical and mental changes. But nothing about social changes. This helped to deepen my understanding of adolescence.
As a project worker I have grown with the use of physical creativity. I really used to not do physical projects because of the extra work and usually stuck to doing essays. But after seeing how well my mask turned out I like being more creative about it as it makes learning more enjoyable.
As a group member I helped in guiding audiences to the next area of our exhibition and helped in creating the very early versions of the map. The map was very helpful in the other part of my group to create an updated map to help guide people around the exhibition.
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