Detailed understanding of the text  

Read the text again and answer the following questions:

1). What are the so-called “odyssey years”?

2). Why does the author say that the odyssey years are an unavoidable stage in reaching adulthood?

3). How do some young people in their odyssey years react to their parents?

4). What is parents’ attitude toward their children in their odyssey years?

5). What do you think is the author’s attitude toward the odyssey years?

                              The Structure of the Passage

What  type of writing is the passage? How is it structured?

Now watch the micro-lecture to explore :

                     Methods of Developing an Expository 

Watch the micro-lecture to master a useful writing method: Comparative/contrast

Comparison: The process of examining two or more things in order to establish their similarities.

Contrast: examining two or  more things in order to establish their differences.

Homework:

Try to find out the contrasts in the passage,and write it down in a mindmap:( search as much as you can)