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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 comes 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. This is one of the causes of puberty coming earlier. She shows through these examples that puberty is happening sooner in children than it has in the past. Gopnik stresses in "What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind" that puberty comes at an earlier stages and full maturity comes later in life for teenagers today.
- Supporting ideas and explanations to prove main ideas
- Concluding sentence: restate main idea
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 is changing rapidly. Gopnik in her article illustrates this by saying that teens are eating more food 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, there 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. D’Asilo is a teenager who has a job at a young age and is successful, “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.
- Set-up
- Evidence: Lead-in “ quotation” ( )
- Explanation of quotation to prove claim
- Counterclaim 1: However, .... Set-up
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- What are the strengths/ flaws of this argument? (use rebuttal progression language) A common view is that teenagers still have internships and work in jobs. It is thought that teenagers become mature at the same time in their lives as previous generations did. Unfortunately, this is not the case; it has been proven that puberty is coming later in a teen's life than ever before. Students spend more time in school, and not working on what their jobs will be in the future. With every generation, puberty comes earlier and earlier; this causes kids to make bad decisions earlier, such as drinking, doing drugs, etc. Eventually, if this pace keeps up, third graders will be starting puberty at a very young age. They won’t be fully mature until they are 40 years old. The theory that teenagers act the same as they used to will have disappeared. This shows how puberty is coming earlier in teenagers' lives and adulthood is coming later. In summary Gopnik proclaims in "What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind", that in every generation puberty is happening earlier and full maturity is coming later.
- Concluding sentence: restate main idea
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