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Try to find some examples in the text.
Text analysis
Part I: diction

Dawn on/upon
Part I: writing device
Parallism
2. Give examples to show how identity is determined.
There are four seasons in one’s college years, representing different aspects of college life. What do you think the four seasons represent? Why?
Preview
4. Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with. (para. 5)
Actually, if the students choose to go to college to continue their education, they will face an even more serious struggle between the desire to be independent and the need to depend on the financial support of their parents.

பைடு நூலகம்Para 9: in a different light; community college
Part II: paraphrase
1. In fact, it may be heightened by their choice to pursue a college education. (para. 3)
guilt→children think they have done sth. wrong anxiety→children are eager to please their parents
mistrust→children think their parents have not been fair
2. Fourth is freedom from “excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father”. (para.4)
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Part I: discussion
What goals do you have for your growth and maturity during your college years?
Part II: diction

Para 2: go through; identity crisis; chance Para 3: independent from/of; yet; heighten; Para 4: functional independence; freedom/free from sth. ; stand back; Para 5: sexual identity; drag one’s feet; Para 6: come to; narrow; in a different way Para 7: internalize; model for; be equal to; ethnic; Para 8: personal value;
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introduction development (categorization) conclusion
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topic sentence example/category summary e.g. paras. 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
Perhaps nothing can make a student experience such a big emotional change except his/her relationships with his/her lover.
Part II: discussion
1. Explain the sentence “How people see themselves in both roles is unquestionably a part of their identity.” What does “both roles” refer to?
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Techniques in Paragraph Development
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quotation: in…(source); according to
categorization: first, second, …; one…another…; in addition to…
只有回顾一生感到所度过的是丰足的，有创建的和幸福的人生 的人才会不惧怕死亡。这种人具有一种圆满感和满足感。而那 种回顾挫败人生的人则体验到失望。
Theme & Structure
Theme

The text gives us a general description of college students’ development or changes on campus. The text is helpful in learning new knowledge, updating old thoughts, getting new habits and taking much self-confidence to tackle with challenges.
Questions

developmental changes: a psychological term which refers to the physiological and behavioral changes throughout the lifespan identity: the qualities that make sb or sth what they are • who you are; what strengths and weaknesses you have; how you perceive yourself as well as how other people perceive you ( self image and the image you present to others) • Erickson: The identity is “a subjective sense as well as an observable quality of personal sameness and continuity, paired with some belief in the sameness and continuity of some shared world image.” • Identity is highly relational. • identity crisis: the difficulties, confusions and anxieties that one goes through when he/she is not sure who he/she is and what his/her purpose in life is
responsibility→children feel responsibility to their parents for everything they do inhibition→children are afraid of not saying the right thing or not behaving properly All these make them angry with their parents or feel resentful. This reflect their emotional dependence on their parents.
3. College students need to stand back and see where they are in the independence/dependence struggle. (para. 4)
(In the face of the arrays of challenges,) it is necessary for college students to avoid getting too emotionally involved in the struggle and try to get a clear idea of their situation.
Structure
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Coherence (smooth transition of both paragraphs and sentences)