Interview:
1. What do you think of these statements?
2. Are you this way?
3. Are your peers this way?
4. Should you be acting this way because your brain is going through this stage?
5. Did you know your brain was going through this stage of development?
6. Anything else you want to add?
Ricardo: 14
1. Very biased, every teen is different and you can not fully understand their mind.
2. I can be demanding.
3. Yes my peers are this way.
4. Yes and no. We do have phases, but that does not excuse us from everything that we do.
5. No.
6. Everything is biased.
Interviews with Teens
9th Graders
Alicia: 15
1. They are very stereotypical. Vampire novels are in a teenage girls’ aspect, it is fiction. We do have tantrums, but the statements do not tell the entire story.. We have them for different resarons.
2. I can be dramatic and sometimes irrational.
3. My peers can have a few of these characteristics.
4. Somewhat they should be acting this way because they are going through a teen stage in their life.
5. Yes.
6. Nothing else.