Response Journal 3- Go Ask Alice

Do parents understand what their teens are experiencing?

Watch the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O4sSZc2WCU
and then think about what Alice says in her diary on September 7:

"I wanted more than anything in the world to know that they understood, but naturally they just kept on talking and talking because they are incapable of really understanding anything. If only parents would listen! If only tey would let us talk instead of forever and eternally and continuously harping and preaching and nagging and correcting and yacking, yacking, yacking! But they won't listen! They simply won't or can't or don't want to listen, and we kids keep winding up back in the frustrating, lost, lonely corner with no one to relate to either verbally or physcially."

How are her parents part of what she is going through at this point in her life? Are they to blame for Alice´s actions or is Alice blaming them so that she does not have to take responsibility herself?

Response Journal2 Go Ask Alice

Alice is unhappy.
It is obvious that she is looking for something more in her life, but will she find it? Or will she settle for things that are immediate, rather than waiting for the things she really wants and really needs? How can wanting more or wanting something different be detrimental to your future?

Response Journal 1- Go Ask Alice Unit

Listen to the song as you think about the first section of Go Ask Alice that you read for today.
How are they connected? How are both about someone´s search for herself? What does someone do in order to find out who he/she is? What does it mean to "chase pavements"?


Adele - Chasing Pavements