Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain
The age group that is most vulnerable to respond strongly to social problems.
What are teenagers?
This character played a small role in the story.
Who is Mo?
Realistic Fiction
What is The Ravine?
Subheadings
Headings
Bullet Points
Boxed Text
Diagrams
Text Features
What Starlene believed happened to Butchie.
What is he was taken by the Stone Goddess?
An emotion that can protect us. It can be mild, medium, or intense.
What is fear?
Legend has it that the Stone Goddess took this fourteen year old.
Who is Butchie?
Informational Text
What is Embarrassed? Blame your brain
What is a synonym for amplify?
Strengthen/make stronger/intensify/increase/boost/turn up
I am tired, because I did not get enough sleep last night.
Subordinating Conjunction
What is because?
An intense fear reaction to a particular thing or situation.
What is a phobia?
Increased Vinny's sense of danger about going to the pond.
Vinny's conversation with his mother.
Organized into various sections to develop the passage's main ideas.
What is Embarrassed? Blame your brain?
A system that prepares one's body to fight.
What is the threat alert system/threat detection?
The amount of time that it takes for some of our brain systems to develop.
What is 13-20 years?
two strategies that help teenagers handle their emotions.
What are taking deep breaths and disagreeing with yourself?
Relieved and At Peace
What is how Vinny felt at the end of the story?
Involves characters, their motivations, and their interactions with one another.
What is The Ravine?
Starting to decay and fall apart
What is decomposing?
The place that Vinny and his friends jumped from the second time.
What is the 15 foot ledge/cliff?
Game that psychologist used to explore the connection between physical and social pain by measuring brain activity while people played it.
What is Cyberball?
Vinny is facing peer pressure and is embarrassed that he is afraid to jump.
What is the conflict of the story?
The reason from Embarrassed? Blame your Brain that could explain why Vinny lets his friends convince him to go to the ravine even after his mother warned him not to
What is the brain is not fully developed/The lateral prefrontal cortex is not fully developed/system that tames the bad feelings and rejection is not developed/peer pressure?
Vinny’s brain sent signals of embarrassment ________ his friends said he was too afraid to jump.
although
if
unless
when
what is when?
The system in the body that recognizes physical and emotional pain.
What is the pain-response system/ "OW" system/dACC Dorsal Anterior Cingulare Cortex?