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UNIT 21
UNIT 21 READING ASSIGNMENT
Read in Butler the fantasies found on pp. 397-397 and the fiction story found on pp. 398-410
UNIT 21 LECTURE
Eleven and Twelve Year Olds
Eleven year olds
- Like members of the opposite sex
- Listen to rap music and rock music
- Like to dance to rap music, e.g., L.L. Cool J
- Like horror movies and stories
- Like Nancy Drew mysteries
- Like series books (Babysitterıs Club, Sweet Valley High)
- Find that friends are very important
- Want their hair to be perfect and clothes to be in fashion
- Like babies and little kids
- Talk on the telephone as much as allowed
- Write notes to friends
- Memorize poetry and song lyrics
- Like to ice skate, roller skate
- Like basketball, football, baseball, all sports
- Read teenage magazines (Creem, Guitar Player, Propaganda)
- Like animals and animal stories, particularly horse stories
- Like survival and adventure stories
- Like happy endings to stories
- Imitate their friends in dress and behavior
- Begin an interest in science fiction
- Read about people just a little older than they are
Twelve year olds
- Like rap, rock and roll, and heavy metal music
- Participate in all kinds of sports
- Begin to specialize in some sport
- Like physical activity
- Eat like a horse, a bottomless pit
- Show interest in the opposite sex
- Begin informally dating, mostly in groups
- Read fashion, rock music, and teenage magazines
- Like American history in fact and fiction
- Like horror stories and movies
- Like comedy, fantasy, and science fiction
- Watch TV sitcoms from thirty minutes to six hours a day
- Are very interested in their social life
- Are interested in makeup, clothes, hairstyles (girls)
- Are interested in clothes and hairstyles (boys)
- Spend endless hours on the telephone with friends
- Have mood swings; seem grown-up one minute, a child the next
- Like to do things for themselves
- Like to be cool
UNIT 21 QUIZ ON LECTURE
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