Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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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
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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
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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.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
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Morphine is the psychoactive ingredient in the heroin.
The brain sends messages to your body telling it that you need more of the drug.
I would never ever do drugs!
It is hard for people to stop using heroin because while they are taking heroin they feel good about themselves.
Some people are able to moderate their drug use but that is only when they are using a drug that dosent have as strong of an affect.
4 questions
What kind of affect does a pregnant mother taking the drug have on her unborn baby?
Is there a way to make yourself feel better without doing drugs?
Why do people really think that doing heroin is a way to get over their problems because their problems never really go away?
How do people get these drugs?
3 vocabulary
Inherent- part of the very nature of something, and therefore permanently characteristic of it or necessarily involved in it
Inferiority- lower or low in rank, standing, or degree
Analgesia- the lack of sensibility to pain while somebody is conscious
2 literary terms
1 overview sentence
All drugs have a bad affect on people but they use it because it makes them feel better when their life is going bad. But the way I look at it doing the drug does not solve problems but if anything makes the problems worst because the drug has a terrible affect and can be the cause of death and never actually solves the persons problems but just makes more problems if anything.
Morphine is the psychoactive ingredient in the heroin.
The brain sends messages to your body telling it that you need more of the drug.
I would never ever do drugs!
It is hard for people to stop using heroin because while they are taking heroin they feel good about themselves.
Some people are able to moderate their drug use but that is only when they are using a drug that dosent have as strong of an affect.
4 questions
What kind of affect does a pregnant mother taking the drug have on her unborn baby?
Is there a way to make yourself feel better without doing drugs?
Why do people really think that doing heroin is a way to get over their problems because their problems never really go away?
How do people get these drugs?
3 vocabulary
Inherent- part of the very nature of something, and therefore permanently characteristic of it or necessarily involved in it
Inferiority- lower or low in rank, standing, or degree
Analgesia- the lack of sensibility to pain while somebody is conscious
2 literary terms
1 overview sentence
All drugs have a bad affect on people but they use it because it makes them feel better when their life is going bad. But the way I look at it doing the drug does not solve problems but if anything makes the problems worst because the drug has a terrible affect and can be the cause of death and never actually solves the persons problems but just makes more problems if anything.
5 Comments
For some addicts using heroin made them feel important.
It only takes a few seconds sometimes a minute for the affects of the drug to kick in.
The smaller that the pupil becomes the stronger the heroin.
Heroin is a terrible drug that has some crazy affects.
One dose of heroin can mess up the way you urinate.
4 Questions
When you are high are you aware of what is going on?
When you are not high do you remember what happened when you were high?
What about the drug makes reduces peoples anxiety and stress?
What are adrenal glands?
3 Vocabulary
Oppress- to subject a person or a people to a harsh or cruel form of domination
Psychotropic- describes drugs that are capable of affecting the mind, e.g. those used to treat psychiatric disorders
2 literary terms
Imagery- The author describes the guy taking a hit of heroin and goes into great detail about his emotions and feelings causing the reader to feel exactly what he is going through.
1 overview sentence
Heroin is a crazy drug that has terrible side effects but still people take the risk and use the drug.
For some addicts using heroin made them feel important.
It only takes a few seconds sometimes a minute for the affects of the drug to kick in.
The smaller that the pupil becomes the stronger the heroin.
Heroin is a terrible drug that has some crazy affects.
One dose of heroin can mess up the way you urinate.
4 Questions
When you are high are you aware of what is going on?
When you are not high do you remember what happened when you were high?
What about the drug makes reduces peoples anxiety and stress?
What are adrenal glands?
3 Vocabulary
Oppress- to subject a person or a people to a harsh or cruel form of domination
Psychotropic- describes drugs that are capable of affecting the mind, e.g. those used to treat psychiatric disorders
2 literary terms
Imagery- The author describes the guy taking a hit of heroin and goes into great detail about his emotions and feelings causing the reader to feel exactly what he is going through.
1 overview sentence
Heroin is a crazy drug that has terrible side effects but still people take the risk and use the drug.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
5 Comments
For some addicts using heroin made them feel important.
It only takes a few seconds sometimes a minute for the affects of the drug to kick in.
The smaller that the pupil becomes the stronger the heroin.
Heroin is a terrible drug that has some crazy affects.
One dose of heroin can mess up the way you urinate.
4 Questions
When you are high are you aware of what is going on?
When you are not high do you remember what happened when you were high?
What about the drug makes reduces peoples anxiety and stress?
What are adrenal glands?
3 Vocabulary
Oppress- to subject a person or a people to a harsh or cruel form of domination
Psychotropic- describes drugs that are capable of affecting the mind, e.g. those used to treat psychiatric disorders
2 literary terms
1 overview sentence
Heroin is a crazy drug that has terrible side effects but still people take the risk and use the drug.
________________________________________________________________________________
For some addicts using heroin made them feel important.
It only takes a few seconds sometimes a minute for the affects of the drug to kick in.
The smaller that the pupil becomes the stronger the heroin.
Heroin is a terrible drug that has some crazy affects.
One dose of heroin can mess up the way you urinate.
4 Questions
When you are high are you aware of what is going on?
When you are not high do you remember what happened when you were high?
What about the drug makes reduces peoples anxiety and stress?
What are adrenal glands?
3 Vocabulary
Oppress- to subject a person or a people to a harsh or cruel form of domination
Psychotropic- describes drugs that are capable of affecting the mind, e.g. those used to treat psychiatric disorders
2 literary terms
1 overview sentence
Heroin is a crazy drug that has terrible side effects but still people take the risk and use the drug.
________________________________________________________________________________
5 comments
The opium smoking was having a major affect on the Chinese.
The addiction to the drug was becoming more clear
People now knew the affect of the drug and were taking advantage of that.
The opium got spread throughout the world
The opium was very addictive going three weeks without the opium drove people crazy.
4 Questions
Why would someone want to take heroin?
How many hits does it take for you to become addicted to the drug?
After an overdose, why does it hurt when you take your first few breaths after being revived?
When drug dealers deal the drug how are they sure whether someone is an undercover cop or not?
3 Vocabulary words
Derivatives- copied from somewhere and not original
Comatose- unable to function: in a very tired or drunken state
Insidious- the ability to see clearly and intuitively into the nature of a complex person, situation, or subject
2 Literary terms
“Silly, sad smile”- Alliteration
“The furnace was being stubborn”- Personification
1 Overview Sentence
The addiction to the drug is just about impossible to fight witho ut help and not getting help affects the other people in your life.
The opium smoking was having a major affect on the Chinese.
The addiction to the drug was becoming more clear
People now knew the affect of the drug and were taking advantage of that.
The opium got spread throughout the world
The opium was very addictive going three weeks without the opium drove people crazy.
4 Questions
Why would someone want to take heroin?
How many hits does it take for you to become addicted to the drug?
After an overdose, why does it hurt when you take your first few breaths after being revived?
When drug dealers deal the drug how are they sure whether someone is an undercover cop or not?
3 Vocabulary words
Derivatives- copied from somewhere and not original
Comatose- unable to function: in a very tired or drunken state
Insidious- the ability to see clearly and intuitively into the nature of a complex person, situation, or subject
2 Literary terms
“Silly, sad smile”- Alliteration
“The furnace was being stubborn”- Personification
1 Overview Sentence
The addiction to the drug is just about impossible to fight witho ut help and not getting help affects the other people in your life.
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