Peer Pressure and Choice

Literature-N-Living Oral Presentation A - Tunes for Bears to Dance To

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Participant A in the Literature-N-Living class presents his thoughts to an audience of peers and their family members. He talks about how Tunes for Bears to Dance To is a story about decisions and choices. He then recounts how incarceration has helped him learn to make better choices and improve his life through education and responsibility to his family.

Literature-N-Living Oral Presentation I - Tunes for Bears to Dance To

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Participant I in the Literature-N-Living class presents his thoughts to an audience of peers and their family members. He talks about how Tunes for Bears to Dance To highlighted the role peer pressure had in his own decision to commit a crime, similarly to how Mr. Hairston pressured Henry into destroying Mr. Levine's village. He apologizes to his family and thanks them and Mr. Richter.

Literature-N-Living Oral Presentation J - Tunes for Bears to Dance To

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Participant J in the Literature-N-Living class presents his thoughts to an audience of peers and their family members. He talks about how Tunes for Bears to Dance To highlighted the role of peer pressure in doing wrong and maintaining secrecy to isolate people so they think they are without options. The participant-writer vows to talk to people he trusts.

Literature-N-Living Oral Presentation K - Tunes for Bears to Dance To

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Participant K in the Literature-N-Living class presents his thoughts to an audience of peers and their family members. He talks about how Tunes for Bears to Dance To has taught him how to handle peer pressure and bribery that can produce negative thoughts and behaviors. He reflects on how both can lead to hurting others and, subsequently, make you regret your actions.

 

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Scholastic Books, publisher of children's and YA literature, publishes research-based topical articles on their website. This one, "Peer pressure: Its influence on teens and decision making," first published in 2008, addresses peer pressure and its connection to brain pathways that are formed. Included within the article are links to other, related articles.