1. TOPIC Growing Pains: A comic strip

2. LESSONGrowing Pains Do you ever wish you had more time to do fun things like watching t.v. or playing computer games? Why do you do homework? Is homework important?

3. A The Adventures of Loring Growing Pains

4. LESSONThe Adventures of Loring Loring was once a kid just like you and he’s made more than just a few mistakes in his childhood. There’s a lot you can learn from the problems he’s encountered and how he reacted to them. Let’s take a look at one specific problem experienced when he was 16 years old. Back then, Loring didn’t like doing homework but his parents always insisted that he do it. Later, you’ll see how the story ended up.

5. LESSONGiving Advice You have already learned how to give advice to people and now it’s time to give advice to Loring. At different points, you will be asked to write one piece of advice for Loring. Example: Loring, you should listen to your mother and do your homework immediately. If you don’t, you could get in a lot of trouble.

6. LESSONCharacters Loring

7. LESSONCharacters Mom Dad

8. LESSONCharacters Justin James

9. ARE YOU READY?

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20. Write one piece of advice for Loring. 1.Do you always do what your parents tell you to do? 2.What are some other things your parents ask you to do? 3.Do you think Loring’s parents are understandably angry? 4.How many times have Loring’s parents told him to do his homework? 5.Should Loring have used violence against his parents? Discussion

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26. Write one piece of advice for Loring. 1.What did Loring do with his homework assignment? 2.Do you think Loring solved his problems by doing this with his homework? 3.Will his parents be happy? Discussion

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47. Write one piece of advice for Loring. 1.Do you think Justin is giving Loring good advice by telling him to leave school and become a singer? 2.Does everybody become a superstar singer? 3.Could Loring become a professional singer some day? 4.What is Lebron’s advice to Loring? 5.Do you think Loring should run away from home and become a basketball player? 6.Do you think running away ever solves your problems, especially when you run away from your home/family/parents? Discussion

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50. Mom and Dad, I’m sorry I didn’t do my homework but ………………………... ………………………………………… ………………………………………… ………………………………………… WHAT DID HE SAY? Write down what you think he said to his parents on a piece of paper.

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