Literature Selection/Advocacy Topic Not Much Just Chillin’ – The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers
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Geriann Boyd, Ron Weldy, Anthony Ficken
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Literature / Advocacy
Presentation
By: Geriann Boyd, Anthony Ficken & Ronnie Weldy
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Literature
• Title: Not Much Just
Chillin’… The Hidden Lives
of Middle Schoolers
• Author: Linda Perlstein
• Published: 2003
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What’s the book about?
• Wilde Lake Middle School in Maryland
• Author does an in-depth study of middle school
children for an entire school year
• She tells about each child’s daily experiences at
school and at home
• Gives statistical information throughout the
book
• Broad range of topics within the book
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Main points
• Girls vs. Boys - discovering romance
• Emotional and Physical changes in adolescents
• Making school relevant for students through
intellectual growth
• Problems with too much alone time
• Parents as friends not gossipers
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• Parents taking
an informed approach
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxg
7DvRVaTc&feature=youtu.be
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Girls - “any girl Will
obsess over at least one
guy in their life”
• Branch out from family and familial relationships
• Most adolescent girls have been kissed but nothing else,
but we hear about the ones who have done much more
than kissing
• Psychological immaturity doesn’t give romance much
meaning at this age
• 25% of middle schoolers have had a crush or “romantic
relationship”
• Erik Erikson: “Girls step toward womanhood by attaching
themselves to others of the opposite sex; boys step toward
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manhood by breaking
away from
such ties”
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What about boys?
• Boys are anxious about “romance”
• Don’t spend as much time analyzing “love”
• Rejection can be more damaging for boys
because they don’t know how to handle the
social aspect of romance
• Some psychologists suggest that the anxiety and
depression isn’t worth it at this age, but others
say it is motivating and the experience is good
for self -worth
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Image – “i’m scary enough
as it is”
• Typical 11 year old has reached 4/5 the height he’ll
attain by adulthood but only half the weight
• Physical changes are greatest they’ve experienced
since they were babies
• Boys are bombarded with body image issues as
much as girls
• “He is tired when he is supposed to be awake, and
awake when he is supposed to be tired. His
attentions have begun to scatter, his temper has
begun to grow. Hobbies and intellectual pursuits
that once captivated him to no end have begun to
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strike him as childish.”
Motivation – “i can’t
make her do anything”
• Interests shift quickly – the brain is evolving and
testing out which cells and connections to shed or
keep, but to an adult it looks like lake of ambition
• “A kid thrives on high expectations, but those same
high expectations can feel a lot like pressure.”
• The principal of Wilde Lake wishes that parents and
students would grow closer during this transitional
time, rather than distancing themselves from each
other
• Adolescents are still needy children
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• Reorganization,Free
NOT
rejection!
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Real life – “but What
does this have to do with
real life?”
• What a child learns at this point is critical because
these connections last forever
• Starting to do abstract thinking
• They need to see the relationship between the self
and the world the self lives in – they have to know
“why?” and “what if?”
• Crucial that students work collaboratively, debate,
explore at different rates and explore their own
interests
• Teachers need to be specifically trained to teach this
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age
“not much Just chillin’”
• Kids start to immerse themselves in the
worlds of communication, culture, and
consumerism
• Begin to have their own identity
• Adolescents want to fit in just as much as
they want their own identity
• Retailers target adolescents
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“i’m not that curious
anymore” – the case of
jimmy
• Lack of self-control
• Finds it fun to contradict others, especially parents
• Feels that his parents focus on the negative instead of
the positive
• Completes homework but it never makes it to the
teacher
• Jimmy wants “me time”
• Important that adolescents do not have long periods
of time alone because that is when they over-think
things and blow situations out of proportion
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Friends and parents
• Gossip is the glue that holds together many middle
school friendships
• “Gossip is a conflict-avoidant way to let people know
what bugs you about them, but in such an indirect
fashion that the gossiper remains protected”
• “Sometimes not being friends with a person can take
up as much energy as being friends with her”
• Loyalty is important – whose side are you on?
• “Parents need to realize that their kids will shed some
friends, gain others and their best role is to help them
figure out what’s motivating their choices”
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Surviving middle school
– “there’s nothing to be
scared of in middle
school”
• Their bodies are undergoing many changes
• Parents need to be supportive and knowledgeable
about their adolescent
• Adolescents also need to understand the changes
they are going through – problems can arise
because of lack of knowledge
• It’s all a learning experience… everyone must go
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So what?
• Parents and teachers must have an
understanding of this time in an
adolescent’s life.
• “Parents and teachers don’t underestimate
the amount of influence they have over the
children during middle school.”
• Adolescents are very vulnerable
• Knowledge is power!
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Higher order thinking
• Analyze how your parent’s and teacher’s
understanding of your developmental
needs impacted you during adolescence.
• Draw conclusions from this presentation
to construct ways in which you can
become more knowledgeable about
adolescent needs before you begin your
teaching career.
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Conclusion
• Think about two things you
learned from today’s lesson.
• Pair up with your shoulder
partner to talk about these ideas.
• Share your ideas with the class!
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bibliograhy
Perlstein, L. (2003). Not much just chillin’.
New York, NY: The Random House
Publishing Group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxg7DvR
VaTc&feature=youtu.be
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