2. Observe children from 3-10
years old (perhaps kids you baby-sit) and interview
their parents
if necessary to create a chart describing characteristics of Kagan's
Inhibited vs
Uninhibited child. Look at their play style (parallel, cooperative,
etc.);
their emotional
response (depressed, happy, aggressive), their concern/empathy
towards others;
their shyness or adaptability to new situations; key fears they
visibly show
or discuss; popularity w/others; bully or bullied; and physical
characteristics
of hair and eye color.
3. Compile a series of questions
about divorce and then administer the survey/poll
to peers and/or
parents and analyze your findings.
Should cover
home life prior to, during first two years after and beyond.
Relationship
with both parents and possible step parents and siblings;
changes in behavior
over time; type of parenting style; amount of conflict
and questions
to determine whether they would best fit Hetherington's
"winners", losers
or survivor profile.
4. Take a poll of individuals(
minimum of 20, half male/half female) using
the Heinz story or something more relevant--cheating, speeding or driving
under the influence and assess their Moral level or reasoning according
to
Kohlbergs stages. Do you see a pattern of gender differences
and do these
seem
to support Gilligan's points of gender differences in moral
understandings?
5. Put together a poster which
shows the relationship using visuals of
Freud's psychosexual
stages-->Eriksons psychosocial stages
Piaget's cognitive
development stages -->Kohlberg's moral stages.
I want only the
name or crisis of each stage and pictures or drawings
which would explain
them.
6. Make a list and rating system
for movies that describe adolescence according
to the many themes
from this chapter. Select one film to view and write a
movie critique
which discusses rites of passage, search for identity; sex roles,
peer relationships;
sexuality; etc. Rate this movie for quality, accuracy, and
stereotypes.
(Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, Grease,
Summer of '42--old
ones I know!)
7. Put together video clips
from tv shows which depict adolescence including
The Seventies
Show, nighttime soaps, etc. Give examples of different theorists
stages and themes--Erikson
identity, Freud: healthy sexuality; Piaget: formal
operational thought,
etc. in a one page accompanying document.
8. Burn a CD or put together
a tape of key songs which display the many themes
of adolescence.
Put a 3x5 card together of song titles, groups and themes of
adolescence that
each song portrays.
9. Write an original poem,
drawing or song which captures an age--childhood,
adolescence,
young adult, middle adulthood or later adulthood. If you would
prefer you can
collect artistic work of young children and discuss intellectual
and social/emotional
development as you see it.
10. Compare your answers to
the following questionnaire to your parents and to
a grandparent or neighbor over the age of 65.
Death Anxiety Questionnaire
To test your own level of death
anxiety, respond according to the following scale:
0 1
2 not at all
somewhat very much
1.Do you worry about dying?
2.Does it bother you that you may
die before you have done everything
you wanted to do?
3.Do you worry that you may be very ill for a long time before you die?
4.Does it upset you to think that others may see you suffering before you die?
5.Do you worry that dying may be very painful?
6.Do you worry that the persons closest to you won't be with you when you are dying?
7.Do you worry that you may be alone when you are dying?
8.Does the thought bother you that you might lose control of your mind before death?
9.Do you worry that expenses connected
with your death will be a burden to other
people?
10.Does it worry you that your will
or instructions about your belongings may not
be carried out after you die?
11.Are you afraid that you may be buried before you are really dead?
12.Are you disturbed by the thought of leaving loved ones behind when you die?
13.Do you worry that those you care about may not remember you after your death?
14.Does the thought worry you that with death you may be gone forever?
15.Are you worried about not knowing what to expect after death?
10b. If you have experienced
a death of a family member or close friend
discuss how you and/or others dealt with that death. Kubler-Ross
has said that the stages of death is very similar to those of grief.
11. Interview people in the
following three age groups: 20-35; 40-60; 60+.
Ask each to describe the major transitions
that have taken place in their
lives--education, loves/marriage,
jobs, becoming parents. . . How do they
feel these transitions have affected
them? Apply theories such as Erikson,
Levinson, Sheehy and Kubler Ross
to some conclusions you reach from your
study.
12. Design your own project
that reflects a personal theory, reflection or
interest in the three themes studied
this quarter. Your development/personality/
intellectual history or analysis.