You will need to locate two people – one between 18 and 23 years of age and one over 60 years of age to complete the following assignment. The assignment has two parts, the interviews and the reflective analysis. You must interview two individuals to earn full credit.
Part 1. Your Interviews
You are going to interview two individuals: someone who is between the ages of 18 and 23 years of age and someone who is over 60 years of age (these may not be classmates). Do not e-mail the questions you need to conduct the interview in a way that will allow you to ask questions to get more detail if the person gives brief or incomplete responses.
Did you attend high school? Did you want to, why or why not? Describe the kinds of subjects you were required to take. Describe the kinds of homework you had. Did most of the adolescents in your neighborhood go to high school?
How many hours per week did you work (not including school-related work)? Did you contribute to the family income? Did you want to go to work, why or why not?
Describe your relationship with your parents as a teenager. Describe the kinds of restrictions or rules your parents placed on your behavior.
Describe the riskiest behavior you or one of your friends took during your teen-age years.
Describe the kinds of clothes you wore for school; dates; outings. Were you concerned about fashion?
At what age were you allowed to date? Describe the dating activities that were common for teenagers in your time.
Describe how you and your friends would spend your free time.
Describe your most nagging problem as a teenager.
Describe what you see as the main difference between the teenagers of today and teen-agers in the past. What do you think of today’s teenagers?
What advice would you give teen-agers today?
Question of student’s choosing
Part 2. Your Reflective Analysis
Once you have completed the interviews, type up the responses, labeling each set with the subject’s gender and age and any other pertinent information. After completing both interviews, you will compare and contrast your interviews according to the following questions (Include the questions followed by your responses.
How did you follow the ethical policies as required?
Describe what adolescence was like in the past and what changes seemed to have occurred.
Describe how your interviewees’ adolescence is different from what you experienced as an adolescent.
What did you learn about adolescence in our readings that might explain the struggles many young people are dealing with? Did either of your interviewees experience these struggles? What theories might apply to explain these issues?
What is your advice for the next generation of teenagers? What have you learned from our readings that support this advice?
What is your advice for parents of today’s adolescents? What have you learned from our readings that support this advice?
What are your two favorite citations from the textbook regarding adolescence? Why are these citations appropriate to your discoveries?
Your Comparison responses should be a minimum of two additional pages – over and above the interview questions and answers. You will submit the interview questions and answers and the 2- page Comparison response paper (Include the Questions).
