Self-identities chart and compare and contrast sheet are not available online and must be retrieved from teacher.
Journal
“For man, life’s longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence.”
By Carla B. Jones
This is the time of life you are in. On a range of 1 - 5, where do you feel you are at? Why?
Clip 1: 3:23
Clip 2: 5:25
Clip 3: 6:20
DEFINITIONS OF ADOLESCENCE
Notions of adolescence are defined by biology and culture and are best understood in a social-historical context. The most longstanding definition of the onset of adolescence links it to puberty, when hormone activity produces the development of secondary sex characteristics (pubic hair and voice change in males; breast development and menarche in females). However, while these biological changes are evidence of the transition from childhood to adolescence, the transition out of adolescence is less well defined. The adage that “adolescence begins in biology and ends in culture” reflects the variable understanding of when adolescence ends. However, theories and models have emerged to explain the transition out of adolescence into early adulthood (Arnett, 2000).
Culturally, definitions of the timing and meaning of adolescence have changed over the years as expectations of youth shifted. A hundred years ago, notions of adolescence were scarcely understood, since teens did not attend high school and most assumed adult roles of providing for their family and getting married at average ages of 14 and 15. Expectations that teens assume adult roles at young ages precipitated the transition into adulthood at much earlier ages than is the case in the 21st century.
