"Growing Up: Key Moments" TGA BRAINSTORMING with Passages

Language: English
Subject: English language > Sentences
Age: 14 - 15

“Growing Up: Key Moments” TGA Brainstorming

Eventually, you will respond to the following:

“Growing Up: Key Moments” outlines several instances that can occur in a person’s life that seem monumental to them. “On Turning Ten” details a specific moment that was monumental to the speaker.

Pick a “key moment” from either text that you have felt similarly to in your own life and explain how the text was like your experience. Explain your answer fully and support it with evidence from the text.

Below you can brainstorm events from your own childhood that are similar to key moments talked about in “Growing Up: Key Moments” and “On Turning Ten”

You may not have a “matching moment” from your own life for every event from the article and the poem. THAT’S OKAY. Just respond to the ones you do have.

This is NOT for a grade, just brainstorming for your own benefit. When you are done brainstorming, click Ctrl + P and then change the "Destination" to "Save as PDF" to save your worksheet to your computer.

Key Moment 1: "The truth about Santa"

Answer: This reminds me of when...

Key Moment 2: "Big News"

Answer: This reminds me of when...

Key Moment 3: "Big News"

Answer: This reminds me of when...

Key Moment 4: "Fading friendships"

Answer: This reminds me of when...

Key Moment 5: "Heartbreaker"

Answer: This reminds me of when...

Key Moment 6: "Taking Charge"

Answer: This reminds me of when...

Key Moment 7: "The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something"

Answer: This reminds me of when...

Key Moment 8: "You tell me it is too early to be looking back"

Answer: This reminds me of when...

Key Moment 9: "But now I am mostly at the window..."

Answer: This reminds me of when...

Key Moment 10: "But now I am mostly at the window..."

Answer: This reminds me of when...

WHEN YOU ARE DONE

Click Ctrl + P to "Print" your work, but instead of printing, select "Designation: Save to PDF" to download a PDF of your work to your computer. If you need more help how to do this, look here: