Peer Pressure ( Olivia & I'Anna)

Which of the following best describes a central idea of the text?

• The pressure to conform or 'be popular' with one's peers may negativley affect their choices in education.

• Students are susceptible to all sorts of outside influences.

• Students, teenagers especially, always desire the approval of their peers, whether consciously or unconsciously.

• It is considered undesirable, or 'uncool', to want to better onesef in school, and therefore many students conform to this idea in order to gain popularity,

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Read this phrase from the article: "In both cases, students were using sign-up for the SAT prep course to signal to peers that they were adhering to the norm of the individual classrooms." What does the phrase "adhering" mean as it is used in the article?

• Conform to

• Disunite

• To stick to...

• To part

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the author's claim?

• Making your own decisions.

• None of the choices.

• Peer Pressure.

• How students work space is affected by their peers and their social status.

Are there false statements or fallacious reasoning within the passage? How do you know?

• Yes, they're false statements in this passage because it makes sense.

• Yes, they're false statements in this passage because there's no way that peer pressure can affect an individual.

• No, they're no false statements in this passage because one person or a group of people can change the way an individual can do.

• No, they're no false statements in this passage because I totally agree with the author.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1