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Part 1:

Question 1: In one to two paragraphs, create your own developmental theory of change for Michelle Obama's narrative of adolescence and young adulthood in Becoming. How is she growing, changing, and learning as a person?

Question 2: As she describes going to her new schools, encountering new groups of people, social contexts, and expectations - how does she make sense of her new situations?

Please use the following as guiding questions:

Question 3: How does she change in these new situations?

Question 4: How does she stay the same in these new situations?

Question 5:  Does her understanding of structures of society change as she encounters new experiences?

Part 2:

Question A. In one paragraph, please describe what Erickson's theory of psychosocial development is, referencing each of the 8 stages. How does Erickson use stages as a way to describe individual development over the course of a lifetime?

Question B. In theory, the narrative in Michelle Obama's Becoming would correspond to Erickson's stages of "Adolescence" and "Young Adulthood." In a final paragraph or two, please answer the following:

1. In what ways does her narrative seem to hold true to Erickson's stages?
2. In what ways does her narrative make you question the "truth" of the stages?
3. Please consider - are all of the stages "resolved" in the way that Erickson suggests?