One of the themes in our class will be the role of narrative in development and learning. Please write up a brief story (3-4 pages, typed, double-spaced) from your personal experience as an adolescent, age 3-19. It could be a story you thought of while doing the class readings. It could be triggered by your observations of other children or an event that was developmentally significant for you. In any case, I ask you to choose a “middle story” about the subject that is neither stale nor raw and unprocessed. In the write-up, imagine telling it to someone in our class.
“Language is the greatest human resource for representing and structuring life events. And no language practice has more impact in this direction than storytelling. Storytelling, one of the earliest forms of communication with young children, is universal to all human cultures and a powerful means of socializing values and world views to children and other intimates”. Capps and Ochs, 1995
Possible options:
-death of my father at a young age
-being pregnant in high school
-watching an aunt abuse drugs
It must focus on one of those three options and emphasize either the physical or psychological development between the ages of 3 to 19.
One of the themes in our class will be the role of narrative in development and
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