Summary Response Outline

Summary:

• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, main idea “What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind?” by Alison Gopnik demonstrates how children are reaching puberty earlier and adulthood later.
• Supporting ideas and explanations to prove main ideas
• Ideas attributed back to author  In this article, Gopnik illustrates how a longer adolescence can result in more risky behavior and explains that we take more risks when our peers are watching.
• Concluding sentence: restate  title, author, strong verb, main idea Alison Gopnik describes how the “neural and psychological systems” that stimulate puberty have changed their “developmental timing”.

Response:

• Topic sentence: title, author,,correctly portrays/ incorrectly portrays___(Main Idea)________ because ___________ .  “What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind?” by Alison Gopnik correctly portrays how adolescents behavior is changing because kids are in the protection of their parents longer than ever before.
• Claim 1:
• Set-up In Gopnik’s article, Gopnik suggests that it is taking longer for children to become self dependent.
• Evidence: Lead-in,  “ quotation” (Shakespeare 1.2.13-17). Gopnik explains that in old cultures, “In gatherer-hunter and farming societies, childhood education involves formal and informal apprenticeships”(Gopnik).
• Explanation of quotation to prove claim: explain quote, connect to claim In the past, young children decided what they wanted to do when they were younger so they focused on that topic and became self reliant faster. For example, children would start learning to hunt at a young age so they could be adept to dangerous tasks like use a machete. Now there are no apprenticeships so students/children take longer to know what they want to do which means they have to be supervised longer.
• Counterclaim (opposing viewpoint) 1: However, .... Gopnik missed many examples of how adolescents are reaching maturity faster than ever.
• Set-up Many adolescents are starting to  take charge of their lives and becoming young entrepreneurs.
• Evidence: Lead-in,  “ quotation” (       ) According to Investopedia, “Hart Main is a 14-year old that came up with the idea of manly scented candles” (Amanda Abella) He has now sold over 9000 units in over 60 stores.

Explanation of quotation to prove counterclaim: explain quote, connect to claim Hart Main is a key example of how adolescents are becoming independent at a young age. He is a very responsible adolescent, showing that kids his age can rely on themselves. They are realizing what they want to do for a job early in life.