Bobby and Jake's Summary Response "Whats's Wrong With the Teenage Mind"

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Summary:

• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, main idea  “What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind” by Alison Gopnik tells about how puberty is coming at an earlier age for children and full maturity and adulthood is coming later.  Gopnik stated in the article that puberty and the motivational systems come in earlier as well.  The motivational systems is where the teenagers greatly value rewards and will do almost anything to get them.  Additionally Gopnik illustrates that puberty is coming earlier by saying that children are eating more and moving less.  Saying that this is one of the causes of this topic.  She shows through these examples that puberty is happening sooner in children than it has in the past.     
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Response:

• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, agree/disagree (correctly portrays/ incorrectly portrays) because ___________ .
• Claim 1:  “What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind” by Alison Gopnik correctly portrays how puberty occurs sooner and adulthood comes later because the environment teens live in changes rapidly.  Gopnik in her article illustrates this by saying that teens are eating more than prior generations and being less active.  Gopnik states, “A leading theory points to changes in energy balance as children eat more and move less” (Gopnik).  Past generations would have never thought puberty would come so early based off how society has evolved.  Children today spend more time not being active than ever before.  On top of that they consume more food than the healthy amount.  However, is no solid evidence that adulthood occurs later.  Nick D’Asilo is one of the many young entrepreneurs that disprove Gopnik’s ideas.  He recently created a news app that he then sold to Yahoo for 30 million dollars.  “The programming guru still has a year and a half left of high school” (Strickland).  High school students are mature enough to start their own businesses.  Young people today still have jobs and are successful at them at a young age.  Teenagers are maturing just as fast as they used to.
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