Perspectives on the Adolescent Brain

Today we watched two videos about the adolescent brain, Sarah-Jayne Blackmore's Ted Talk, and Dan Siegel's presentation for the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education. What did you learn from them? Do you think one video was better than the other, and if so, why? Where was the overlap, and how did their information or approach or purpose differ?

For Tuesday's class, get ready to go to school in ancient Greece. Also please review this helpful article on how to write an analysis paper because that's what we are going to do next. The article is designed for an American literature course, but everything in it is relevant for analyzing other sorts of writing, or films, or art, or you name it.