5 comments
They study animals as well as humans.
Fletcher is a monkey.
Fletcher went and ran away from his “home”.
Primates experience puberty.
Humans and monkeys have a similar neural endocrine system.
4 questions
What does an animals adolescence have to do with a humans adolescence?
Is there another way to express adolescence without saying adolescence?
Who is Fletcher?
Monkeys can swim?
3 Vocabulary Words
Chagrined-a feeling of vexation or humiliation due to disappointment about something
Rhesus-in Greek mythology, one of the kings of Thrace
2 Literary terms
“,settles squabbles”- alliteration
1 Overview sentence
They study monkeys too because there are similarities between monkeys and humans so by study monkeys the scientists have something to compare to.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
( siixth ) !*
5 Comments
Seniors notice that they were loud and doing crazy things during their freshman years and they do not understand where the feeling to do those crazy behaviors were coming from.
A parent was keeping copies of his son’s brain scans. ( That is weird )
Brain scanners work with radio waves that interact with hydrogen atoms.
As adolescence process there is a loss of grey matter.
There had never been a systematic long term study of children with normal brains before.
4 Questions
What are hydrogen atoms?
What is schizophrenia?
What is it that these neuroscientists are trying to find out?
Where is the National Institutes of Health?
3 Vocabulary Words
Thornier- complicated and difficult to resolve
Noninvasive-not involving cutting into the body or entry into a body cavity such as the colon or stomach
Rhesus-in Greek mythology, one of the kings of Thrace
2 Literary Terms
1 Overview Sentence
The neuroscientist are studying normal people to get a better understanding of hiow the brain functions in general. ( I do not understand that concept )
Seniors notice that they were loud and doing crazy things during their freshman years and they do not understand where the feeling to do those crazy behaviors were coming from.
A parent was keeping copies of his son’s brain scans. ( That is weird )
Brain scanners work with radio waves that interact with hydrogen atoms.
As adolescence process there is a loss of grey matter.
There had never been a systematic long term study of children with normal brains before.
4 Questions
What are hydrogen atoms?
What is schizophrenia?
What is it that these neuroscientists are trying to find out?
Where is the National Institutes of Health?
3 Vocabulary Words
Thornier- complicated and difficult to resolve
Noninvasive-not involving cutting into the body or entry into a body cavity such as the colon or stomach
Rhesus-in Greek mythology, one of the kings of Thrace
2 Literary Terms
1 Overview Sentence
The neuroscientist are studying normal people to get a better understanding of hiow the brain functions in general. ( I do not understand that concept )
[ Fiifth ] !*
5 Comments
Parents notice that there children begin to link the events that take place with emotions as they get older.
Teenagers process language differently.
There a lot of things that this book says that I did not know about myself as a teenager.
Adolescent brains : ramp up”.
Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers emitted from a neuron.
4 Questions
What does it mean to be genetically prone?
What is brain pruning?
What is an fMRI?
What is a prefrontal cortex?
3 Vocabulary Words
Militating-to have an influence, especially a negative one, on something
Caudate- with a tail or an appendage like a tail
Psychodynamic-the interaction of the emotional and motivational forces that affect behavior and mental states, especially on a subconscious level
2 Literary Terms
1 Overview Sentence
Parents are feeling that as there children grow into young adult hood and leave their teenage stage they begin to understand life better and make better choices.
Parents notice that there children begin to link the events that take place with emotions as they get older.
Teenagers process language differently.
There a lot of things that this book says that I did not know about myself as a teenager.
Adolescent brains : ramp up”.
Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers emitted from a neuron.
4 Questions
What does it mean to be genetically prone?
What is brain pruning?
What is an fMRI?
What is a prefrontal cortex?
3 Vocabulary Words
Militating-to have an influence, especially a negative one, on something
Caudate- with a tail or an appendage like a tail
Psychodynamic-the interaction of the emotional and motivational forces that affect behavior and mental states, especially on a subconscious level
2 Literary Terms
1 Overview Sentence
Parents are feeling that as there children grow into young adult hood and leave their teenage stage they begin to understand life better and make better choices.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
4th
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Many of the brains systems are always running.
Teachers say that they notice a change in their students after a certain age.
Every person in this book ( so far ) blames a change in a child’s behavior on adolescence.
Teachers that teach grades were adolescence is just now beginning and has not quite kicked in think of activities to do with their class, but when these students get to eighth grade teachers feel that such antics are not needed for children in that age group.
4 Questions
What are frontal lobes?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What is polysided?
What does it mean to have an innate quantitative sense?
3 Vocabulary Words
Innate-relating to qualities that a person or animal is born with
Tangible-able to be touched or perceived through the sense of touch
Medulla-biology innermost structure: the innermost area of a part or organ of an animal or plant
2 Literary Terms
Metaphor-”think of an airplane, most people think that when it lands it has its engines on low ant it’s just floating in. but that’s not always so; in landing an airplane often has to be in full throttle in case it has to react quickly if something happens. The brain to he says, is set up to be whirring all the time.”
1 Overview Sentence
The brain is always going and it is functioning differently depending on your age range.
Many of the brains systems are always running.
Teachers say that they notice a change in their students after a certain age.
Every person in this book ( so far ) blames a change in a child’s behavior on adolescence.
Teachers that teach grades were adolescence is just now beginning and has not quite kicked in think of activities to do with their class, but when these students get to eighth grade teachers feel that such antics are not needed for children in that age group.
4 Questions
What are frontal lobes?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What is polysided?
What does it mean to have an innate quantitative sense?
3 Vocabulary Words
Innate-relating to qualities that a person or animal is born with
Tangible-able to be touched or perceived through the sense of touch
Medulla-biology innermost structure: the innermost area of a part or organ of an animal or plant
2 Literary Terms
Metaphor-”think of an airplane, most people think that when it lands it has its engines on low ant it’s just floating in. but that’s not always so; in landing an airplane often has to be in full throttle in case it has to react quickly if something happens. The brain to he says, is set up to be whirring all the time.”
1 Overview Sentence
The brain is always going and it is functioning differently depending on your age range.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
[thiird].*
5 Comments
Elizabeth Sowell is one of the country’s top researchers on the adolescent brain.
Teenagers are paid sixty dollars per visit to get their brains examined.
Adolescence in animals is over quickly.
This is the world’s first long term study of brain development in normal kids.
Baby and teenage brains are when the brain is changing the most.
4 Questions
What is polysided?
How can you tell whether a teenager is normal or not?
What is LSD?
What is NIH?
3 Vocabulary Words
Grabble-to scratch or search around with the hands
Schizophrenia-psychiatric disorder with symptoms of withdrawal into self: a severe psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, and withdrawal into the self
2 Literary Terms
I have not found any literary terms! :-(
1 Overview Sentence
They have volunteers that stick their heads in an MRI machine.
Monday, January 26, 2009
numero dos
5 Comments
Hormones is the explanation to moody teenage behavior.
Testosterone is a hormone in boys and very little is found in girls.
Estrogen is a hormone found in girls.
Teenage brains are undergoing a dramatic transformation.
Different teenagers teach the scientist something new.
4 Questions
What does spending a lot of time in the bathroom have to do with being an adolescent?
What is LSD?
Why do parents freak out over small things like forgetting to call home?
What are neurochemicals.
3 Vocabulary Words
Pubescent-reaching or having attained
Evasive-not giving a direct answer to a question.
Annihilating-to destroy something completely, especially so that it ceases to exist
2 Literary Terms
N/A
1 Overview Sentence
Scientist are trying to figure out what in the brains of teenagers are causing their behavior to change so rapidly.
Hormones is the explanation to moody teenage behavior.
Testosterone is a hormone in boys and very little is found in girls.
Estrogen is a hormone found in girls.
Teenage brains are undergoing a dramatic transformation.
Different teenagers teach the scientist something new.
4 Questions
What does spending a lot of time in the bathroom have to do with being an adolescent?
What is LSD?
Why do parents freak out over small things like forgetting to call home?
What are neurochemicals.
3 Vocabulary Words
Pubescent-reaching or having attained
Evasive-not giving a direct answer to a question.
Annihilating-to destroy something completely, especially so that it ceases to exist
2 Literary Terms
N/A
1 Overview Sentence
Scientist are trying to figure out what in the brains of teenagers are causing their behavior to change so rapidly.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
1st 5/4/3/2/1 of the 3rd term
The Primal Teen Book
By: Barbara Strauch
54321
5 comments:
Barbara Strauch is the mother of two teenagers.
Children can be absolutely fine and doing what is expected of them but then they can quickly change and be doing the wrong thing.
These parents don’t understand why there well behaved children suddenly act out.
Scientist all over have been trying to figure out teenagers for ages.
These people are making a big deal out of the way teenagers act for no reason; they are making it seem like there is something crazy going on in a teenagers brain.
4 Questions
Why do all these parents think that something must be wrong with us just because we don’t want to clean something or don’t agree with them?
Why is a teenagers behavior so fascinating to adults?
Why do parents blame our moods on being a teenager?
Why don’t the parents just accept that as people sometimes we want to be alone?
3 Vocabulary Words
Inexplicably -unable to be explained or justified
Ferocious-very fierce or savage
Quibble- to argue over unimportant things and make petty objections
2 Literary Terms
“…an jokes come popping up, like pimples before a prom.”(simile)
Anecdote-page four-She tells a story about a conversation her and her friend had.
1 Overview Sentence
These parents feel that there children act certain ways because they are teenagers and they blame every bad thing on adolescence.
By: Barbara Strauch
54321
5 comments:
Barbara Strauch is the mother of two teenagers.
Children can be absolutely fine and doing what is expected of them but then they can quickly change and be doing the wrong thing.
These parents don’t understand why there well behaved children suddenly act out.
Scientist all over have been trying to figure out teenagers for ages.
These people are making a big deal out of the way teenagers act for no reason; they are making it seem like there is something crazy going on in a teenagers brain.
4 Questions
Why do all these parents think that something must be wrong with us just because we don’t want to clean something or don’t agree with them?
Why is a teenagers behavior so fascinating to adults?
Why do parents blame our moods on being a teenager?
Why don’t the parents just accept that as people sometimes we want to be alone?
3 Vocabulary Words
Inexplicably -unable to be explained or justified
Ferocious-very fierce or savage
Quibble- to argue over unimportant things and make petty objections
2 Literary Terms
“…an jokes come popping up, like pimples before a prom.”(simile)
Anecdote-page four-She tells a story about a conversation her and her friend had.
1 Overview Sentence
These parents feel that there children act certain ways because they are teenagers and they blame every bad thing on adolescence.
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