Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Here are some of the things that Miriam Holmes talks about. Discuss in groups whether or not you agree with these points. Internet project Design a page for your portfolio project on youth cults. Include: • Profiles of a few of the cults that are popular today • Your own feelings on the subject • A newspaper article on the subject • An imaginary diary entry for someone who is involved with one of these groups • Photos 13 14 Atkinson, Kate: Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Black Swan 1996) Bank, Melissa: The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Penguin 2000) Coupland, Douglas: JPod (Bloomsbury 2006) Eugenides, Jeffery: Middlesex (Bloomsbury 2003) Falk, Gerhard/Falk Ursula: Youth Culture and the Generation Gap (Algora 2005) Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections (HarperPerennial 2002) Irving, John: Until I Find You (Black Swan 2006) Meno, Joe: Hairstyles of “The Damned” (Akashic Books 2004) Mitchell, David: Black Swan Green (Sceptre 2006) Oates, Joyce Carol: We Were the Mulvaneys (Fourth Estate 2001) Steinberg, Laurence: Adolescence (McGraw-Hill 2008) Townsend, Sue: Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Penguin 2005) Wimbush, Paul: The Birth of an Ecovillage (Youwriteon 2012) Reading tips 15 “Youth cults offer solidarity to young people who feel that they are victimised by society.” “One of the biggest sources of conflict between parents and teens is youth cults.” “Trying to force your children to do what they don’t want to do will just make them want to rebel more.” “There is a lot we can do to help make our relationships with our teenagers smoother and I think it all starts with trying to understand them a bit better.” “If I’m a surfer and I see all my surfer friends have got tattoos then I am going to want to get one too.” “Teenagers are just victims of this greedy world like the rest of us.” “Teenagers, in an effort to find their self-identity, will do anything to be different from their parents.” 114 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv