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Tis is the rubric for the paper I have to write:
For the paper, you are to write about an individual’s childhood and development. This individual
MUST be fictional and may be a well-known fictional character (from a movie, television show,
or book). Points will be deducted if you do not use a fictional character. If you do not know all
the details of their childhood or development, you are welcome to use your imagination and
create your own backstory.
Your analysis should draw on concepts discussed in lectures and include a detailed examination
of the character’s development through the stages of infancy/toddlerhood, early childhood, and
middle childhood. The focus should be on how and why these developmental changes occur,
rather than simply describing what happens.
You will receive a maximum of 150 points for the final paper.
1) Your final paper must be at least 2,000 words. Papers that do not meet this requirement will
automatically have 40 points deducted (e.g., the maximum score your paper will receive is
110 points - 75%).
Title Page in APA Format (5 points).
Introduction: Briefly introduce the fictional character and the contexts of their development.
(30 points).
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In this section, you’ll introduce your fictional development and discuss the
contexts and their influences in development. This is meant to give a sense of
your character’s family, culture, ethnicity/race, socioeconomic
status/neighborhood, and historical context (e.g., any normative historic-graded
influences?).
Explain how these contexts interact (e.g., how do family characteristics interact
with cultural influences?). Describe any non-normative influences that may
affect this character.
Physical Development: Describe the character’s physical development during their
childhood, including milestones, growth patterns, and relevant health issues. (30
points).
Discuss the character’s physical growth in infancy, toddlerhood,
early childhood, and middle childhood.
Discuss the pace and progress of your character’s fine and gross
motor development in your character’s infancy, toddlerhood, and
early childhood. Additionally, include information about your
character’s physical activity and fitness in middle childhood.
Analyze your character’s nutrition and sleep patterns, and how
they’ve changed from infancy to middle childhood.
What factors may have influenced your character’s physical
development?
Cognitive Development: Discuss the character’s cognitive development, including their
language acquisition, problem-solving skills, and intellectual growth (30 points).
Analyze your character’s cognitive development from infancy through
childhood through the lens of (1) Piaget’s stages of development and the (2)
Information Processing Approach of development.
Discuss your character’s language development and the factors that have
influenced their language development. How has this changed from through
childhood?
Describe your character’s experience in school in early and middle childhood,
and how this has influenced their cognitive development. Did you character
experience any intelligence testing?
Socioemotional Development: Discuss how the character’s social environment influences
their development, including family dynamics, education, and peer relationships. (30
points)
What was your character’s temperament as an infant and how did this affect
their attachment style and quality of parenting?
When your character became older (as a child), what was their
parents’ parenting and discipline style?
How have factors such as culture (e.g., e.g., culture and temperament in
infancy, cultural differences in parenting styles) and your character’s gender
(E.g., parenting influences in their infancy, gender stereotypes in early
childhood) influenced their psychosocial development?
Discuss your character’s psychosocial development through the lens of
Erikson’s stages of development.
How does your character’s self-concept (e.g., the developing self) change
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from infancy to early and middle childhood?
Analyze how your character’s relationships with others have changed over
time. Specifically, discuss how family influences and peer influences have
changed from infancy through childhood.
Use at least 5 peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters with an APA-style reference
page (20 points)
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Each should be cited in-text at least once.
Direct quotes are NOT to be used, and points will be deducted for doing so. An effort
needs to be made to put the necessary information in your own words, and
information needs to be cited.
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Purdue Owl can help with APA guidelines:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01...
Papers must follow these general formatting guidelines: (5 points)
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Must be APA format (e.g., in-text citations).
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Use 1” margins and 12pt Times New Roman.
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Double-spaced.
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Free of grammatical and/or spelling errors."
help me analyze this character for this assignment. im doing Juliette Ferrars from Shatter me, here is info about her from the books:
- 1. Shatter Me (Book #1)
- Juliette Ferrars is a 17-year-old girl whose skin is lethal to any human who touches her.
- After accidentally killing a small boy with her touch, the authorities imprison her in an asylum, where she has been held in solitary confinement for 264 days.
- Her new cellmate, Adam Kent, turns out to be someone she vaguely remembers from her past.
- The authoritarian government known as the Reestablishment rules what is left of society, and the young leader of Sector 45, Aaron Warner, decides to use Juliette’s deadly ability as a weapon.
- Juliette begins to question her identity, her morality, and whether she can control her power.
- By the end of the book, she escapes with Adam’s help and joins a secret rebel organization called Omega Point.
- Memory-loss note: No full erasure occurs yet, but Juliette experiences gaps in memory and unexplained familiarity with Adam that hint at forgotten history.
2. Unravel Me (Book #2)- Juliette finds safety at Omega Point, where people with extraordinary abilities train to resist the Reestablishment.
- She struggles to view her power as a gift instead of a curse and fights inner conflict about her identity.
- Her relationships with Adam and Warner intensify, reflecting her confusion about trust and loyalty.
- She learns that emotions amplify her power and that others possess unique “gifts” as well.
- Battles, betrayal, and capture follow; Juliette is briefly taken back by the Reestablishment, wounded, and later healed.
- Memory-loss note: Still no active erasure, but Juliette begins realizing that parts of her past and the world’s history have been hidden from her.
3. Ignite Me (Book #3)- This novel concludes the first trilogy and marks Juliette’s turning point from victim to leader.
- She allies with Warner, once her enemy, when she discovers that his motives are more complex than she believed.
- Through training and emotional growth, she learns to control her power and begins understanding its deeper connection to her sense of self.
- Juliette leads the rebellion to victory, defeating the Reestablishment’s Supreme Commander, Anderson, and accepting her emerging role as a leader.
- Memory-loss note: Her understanding of her past sharpens; inconsistencies in what she remembers suggest manipulation or concealment of earlier memories.
4. Restore Me (Book #4)- After overthrowing the Reestablishment in North America, Juliette becomes the new Supreme Commander, with Warner supporting her leadership.
- Despite victory, she feels unprepared to govern a fractured society. Political instability and internal dissent threaten her fragile authority.
- While managing power struggles, Juliette uncovers disturbing truths about her own origins and Warner’s past.
- She realizes that her life story—what she believed about her family, childhood, and even her name—may have been fabricated.
- Memory-loss note: This book introduces the idea that Juliette’s memories were intentionally altered and that large parts of her early life were erased or rewritten.
5. Defy Me (Book #5)- Juliette’s leadership unravels as she confronts both personal and political crises.
- Her biological parents, Max and Evie Sommers, reappear and manipulate her for their own gain.
- It is revealed that Juliette’s real name is Ella Sommers and that her memories were deliberately erased.
- She learns that she and Warner knew each other as children, but Warner’s father repeatedly wiped both their memories whenever they grew close, to maintain control.
- Juliette undergoes severe psychological manipulation and additional memory-erasure attempts.
- Gradually, fragments of her true past return, and she realizes her entire identity has been shaped by lies and repression.
- Memory-loss note: This book makes memory erasure a central theme—Juliette’s recovery of her childhood, her connection with Warner, and the truth about her parents form the emotional core of the story.
Overall Memory-Loss Summary- Juliette was born Ella Sommers and later adopted as Juliette Ferrars, losing memories of her biological family and early childhood.
- She and Warner shared a childhood connection that neither remembered because repeated memory wipes erased their bond.
- These erasures, performed by powerful adults for control, explain the recurring gaps and emotional déjà vu she experiences throughout the series.
- Rather than a cycle of total amnesia, the books reveal a gradual uncovering of suppressed truths that redefine her sense of identity and belonging.