Words for teenagers Northland College principal John Tapene has offered the following words from a judge who regularly deals with youth. "Always we hear the cry from teenagers, "what can we do, where can we go?" "My answer is this: Go home. mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job. visit the sick, study your lessons and after you've finished, read a book. Your town does not owe you rocreational facilities and your par- ents do not owe you fun. "The world does not owe you a living you owe the world some thing. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in sickness and lonely again . In other words grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone not a wishbone. Start behaving like a re- sponsible person. You are import- ant and you are needed . It's too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday . Someday is now and that somebody is you!" 3.1 How do these words influence the way you should think about the transition from school to post-school destination that you are about to experience? (2) 3.2 Describe your personal plan for the year after Grade 12 and suggest one positive aspect of that change. (2) 3.3 Suggest one challenge that may arise from the plan you outlined in question 2.4 in activity 2. (1) 3.4 How do you think John Tapene might suggest you deal with the challenge you (2) have mentioned in question 4.3? 3.5 Provide another example of a change one might experience in life other than the transition from school to post school and suggest a way to cope with this (1 +2) change. TOTAL ACTIVITY 3: [10]
