Station Study: Words for Teenagers

Complete the activity at each station.  This post contains all of the items you are annotating, reflecting on, and learning from.  Please respond to the following prompt (answer completely on a google doc!) as a reflection when you are completed with all stations:

Prompt: Does our society program this generation of teens to believe that "personal image" is more important than being true to one's self?  Identify and explain the contributing factors that influence this behavior.

Ideas to consider:

1. What ideas/life lessons do these three items/sources have in common?  

2. What aspects do you agree or disagree with and why?  

3. Slip of the Tongue provides many metaphors for behaviors of the youth in society.  What metaphor can you come up with that defines the actions and decisions of America's teens?  (Need to know what a metaphor is?  Click here for the blog post on Metaphors from quarter 1).

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Station 1 Article: "Words for Teenagers"

Station 2 Quotes: Words to Live By

Station 3 Online Discussion: "Everything is Amazing and Nobody is Happy"

Station 4 Video: Media that Matter's "Slip of the Tongue" short documentary film.  Click here for the words.

Station 1 & 2

Click the link below for the article to annotate.  You can choose to either annotate the article online or complete the annotations on paper in class.

http://kellygallagher.org/resources/AoW%2019%20Fragile%20Brains.pdf

Station 3: Stress and your Brain

Hit the SCRIBLE feature on your browser to annotate the following infographic.  Be sure you have one person in your group log-in - everyone type under their account.

Station 4: Middle Schooler's Brains

Open this link IN A NEW TAB from Today's Meet: http://todaysmeet.com/brains

Discuss the following quote and explain your reasoning to the question.