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Electronic Teaching Portfolio Book One Unit Four: Growing UP Part I Get Started Section A Discussion ▇ Sit in groups of threes or fours and discuss the following questions. How did you feel about your parents when you were a child? Did your attitude towards them change when you grew into a teenager? Explain the change, if any. What is the greatest difficulty you have encountered in the process of growing up? “Only adolescents will like adolescents.” What do you think this statement means? Why do you think people say this? Do you agree? ▇ Answers for reference: Open. Open. The statement means that adolescents are generally a group of rebellious young people, so that most adults will frown on their behaviour and dislike them. Only those who are in the same boat (who are also adolescents) will understand their behaviour and ways of thinking. People often quote this statement because they generally have a negative view of the strange/extraordinary behaviour of teenagers. Anyway, different people hold different view towards this statement. Section B Quotes ▇ Study the following quotes about growing up. Do you agree with each of them? Give reasons to support your view. Abraham Lincoln ⊙You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. — Abraham Lincoln Interpretation: By this quote, Abraham Lincoln means that no matter how great or famous or rich your grandfather is, you have to grow up on your own. About Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865): Abraham Lincoln was a US politician in the Republican Party who was the President of the US from 1861 to 1865. He won political support in the Northern US states because of his speeches against slavery, but this made him unpopular in the Southern states, where slaves did most of the farm work. The American Civil War started soon after he became President, when the Southern states decided to leave the