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My high school seniors are immersed in a maelstrom of emotional growth with the far too bland title of adolescence. They are trying to evolve into adults with individuality while also meeting the expectations of powerful voices of authority in their lives—family, friends, teachers, and cultural media. Often, they get this balance between being an individual and meeting expectations wrong. They rebel needlessly against healthy advice, or they repress their individuality and become pleasers, grade grubbers, or social followers.
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Gee, N. (2016). The Wizards Beneath. In: Fabrizi, M.A. (eds) Fantasy Literature. Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors And Genres. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-758-0_3
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