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EDU 220 Pepsi Screening

Kathleen L. Hoffman

College Of Southern Nevada

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Biography

This PEPSI screening is on Kylie Hoffman, a Senior at Shadow Ridge High School. After high

school she is going to attend UNLV to become an FBI agent. Kylie was born in Las Vegas,

Nevada on July 26, 1999 at Sunrise Hospital. Kylie is 17 years old, and has already

accomplished many goals and has many more set goals for her future. She lives with my mom,

dad and I in an average one story house around Craig and Alexander. The house she lives in, she

has been a resident at since her second birthday. Kylie has a busy schedule from Monday through

Friday with a very set routine she follows. But, she is not a morning person. She has to set 4

alarms to wake her up. Her normal schedule is to get up, be at school before 7am. She gets out

early every day, but has to come back to attend her athletic activity, which is currently varsity

flag football. Earlier in the year it was varsity soccer. She also plays club soccer outside of

school. Since her high school sports are finally just about over she applied for a job at In-N-Out

and got hired after two interviews. She will only work a few days a week during high school.

During Kylie’s free time, she spends it being lazy due to her being super active the rest of the

time. She likes to hang out with her friends going to Starbucks and watching TV, but mostly she

hangs out with her guy best friend playing video games. Kylie is spoiled by her parents even

though they aren’t rich, at all, but her parents are great at saving money. Kylie’s parents own a

condo in Duck Creek Village, Utah and they own some land up there as well. Her parents don’t

have to save money for college due to Kylie being 25 percent Native American she can get a

scholarship from her tribe along with other academic scholarships and her mom helped her apply

for in the past year. Kylie also babysits on the side so she can pay my mom back for a car
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accident that she got into this year, so she can learn her lesson along with being responsible for

her own action. When it comes to eating Kylie enjoys eating hot Cheetos, fast food, and all spicy

food, and burns it all off playing sports. Kylie is very outgoing, beautiful, smart, and very

determined to do anything she sets her mind too. She has had a lot on her plate, but knows how

to make it all work somehow.

Physical

When it comes to physical, Kylie has always been pretty thin all her life until she got to high

school and she got taller and she gained a little weight. The weight wasn’t bad, a lot of it was

muscle. According to Live Strong Foundation, “Teen-aged girls develop at different rates, as

some enter puberty later than others and some may develop more slowly than others, so some

girls might have might have somewhat different body fat percentage or look different from other

teen girls, even at the same age, height and weight.” (“How Fast Can You Decrease Your Body

Fat Percentage?”, 2017) Which is very true in Kylie’s case, as she finally got to senior year

weighing 128 and height 5’5, and now weighing 119 and same height resulting from the two

sports she finally burned all the weight off with being a full time athletic. Bouncing from varsity

soccer to club soccer and now varsity flag football and going to the gym, Kylie gets around 4

hours of exercise each day. That’s above the average amount according to Live Strong

Foundation, “As a teen aim for one hour of exercise per day.” (Cespedes, 2015) With Kylie’s

physical appearance she has very high self-esteem in her body image. Kylie even finds time

between her busy schedule of active sports to work out at LVAC and will continue to hit the gym

when her team sports have ended. But she is hoping to find an adult team to play on. Kylie
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doesn’t just run to get endurance and speed, but to physically gain muscle. She also works out

with weights and abs machines that are part of the gym routine. Playing sports has never taken

Kylie’s goals off of her grades or caused her to lose sight of her education. Additionally, the

coaches make sure they have a 2,25 GPA or higher to participate. Sports has benefits to

education according to Aspen Institute, “Organized sports activity helps children develop and

improve cognitive skills.” (“Facts: Sports Activity and Children”, 2017). In addition to

education purposes, Kylie is very physically active, and very proactive at taking care of herself.

Emotional

Kylie and I were really close until she hit 16 about to turn 17 she locked all her feelings inside

and stop sharing them with my mom and I. She is very emotional, but mostly keeps it all inside.

this article said “Yet adolescents frequently feel conflicted about leaving the safety and security

of home. They may yo-yo back and forth between craving your attention, only to split away

again.” (“Stages of Adolescence”, 2017) Kylie had many emotional things happen to her over the

years since she has been in high school. About 2 years ago, at age 15, when one of her close

friends overdosed on medicine died and Kylie felt depressed thinking how she wished she had

known or how she could have helped save her if she had known and wishing her friend had just

texted her. Kylie wouldn’t talk to us about her friend, she just hung pictures around her room like

a shrine. She finally grieved less and less to the point where she told my family the good times

they shared and she started focusing on the happy times. Then that summer our papa died and
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she was sad when we visited him in hospice. At his funeral, she didn’t cry when she stood up to

talk about him. She held it all in. Later, she did which let her release all what she was holding in

about our papa. Seeing people around her die, and the death of a grandparent was hard on a 15

year-old. Even Scholastic posted an article about pain and loss. “The pain is related to the nature

of the transaction. When loss is sudden and unexpected, there is much less time for the child to

begin adjusting.” (“Emotional Development: Death and loss – helping children manage Their

Greif”, 2017) Kylie has had to deal with death the hard way, losing a friend to suicide overnight

and then my papa being sick for years. She got to say good bye to her Papa, but not to her friend.

She was also in a relationship with a guy that she loved and she thought he loved her, but he up

ended breaking her heart. She doesn’t even want to date anyone for right now because she scared

of commitment. In an article, “Adolescents romantic relationships have been associated with

higher level of depression, although their links with externalizing behavioral problems remain

unclear.” (“Stages of Adolescence” , 2017)

Philosophical

When it comes down to what Kylie believes in, she doesn’t like how the government was being

ran and her political views are she is not Democrat or Republican, she is an Independent. How

Kylie manages her life, she goes all out till she stops and never really thinks about what she

wants besides that she is going to work for the FBI. She is very independent, and loves her to

look at all the social apps on her spare time. According to Lake Side connect website, “16-to-17

years old remain more interested in personal social issues than academic goals.” (Teen Ages and

Stages… 2017). Kylie attends Cornerstone church, she has been a follower of God since she was
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baptized and is a diehard Christian as the rest of our family is. Kylie’s views on the world are she

loves helping people and loving people more than anything. She said if she could help everyone

live the way she does she would. She wants the world to be a better safer environment for the

whole world not just America. Kylie attends missions in Mexico and help, build houses and

helps at the orphanage along with the rest of our church. Kylie is also very strong willed and

does what she wants and will only do stuff for the family if it suits her. As kind and thoughtful

as she can be on the mission trips, she can be the opposite at home with her family. It seems like

sometimes she thinks the world /my parents owe her something in return for anything she does.

She’s only interested in people she likes and doesn’t want to help anyone else. “Stage 2

reasoning shows a limited interest in the needs of others, but only to the point where it might

further the individuals own interest.” (“Lawrence Kohlberg stages of…”, 2017) Overall Kylie

moral view of the world is loving and helping the world best to what she can do. She loves

everyone equally, and wants racism to go away, but believes it will never go away. Kylie believes

she is adult because she works, but she doesn’t pay for her own gas or bills, but wants to be

considered an adult. As the article says, “They want to be seen as an adult instead of child but

lack information resources and knowledge for wise decision making.” (Teen Ages and Stages..,

2017)
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Social

Kylie is the definition of a social butterfly. She connects with peers around her, teachers,

coaches, her friends and just everyone. Kylie is known to have many friends in school because

she talks and communicates very well. Kylie does have one weakness, anxiety. She has major

anxiety when she presents in front of her classroom. But other than that She became very social

when she joined clubs and Girl Scouts. Kylie being the social girl she never was peer pressured

at school or at home. If it was peer pressure it was positive pressure, where her friends talked her

to go to school dances. Says this article “Peer pressure can be a positive influence for example,

when it motivates your child to do well in school, or to become involved in sports or other

activities.” (“Social Development During the Teen Years”, 2017) When it comes to choosing who

her truly best friend she can’t pick one because every friend she has had has betrayed her and

talks bad about her to their group of friends. Kylie being a reasonable person always forgives

them and continue to be friends but some of her closest friends just stop seeing each other every
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day and just stop talking. According to Love to Know “Teens sometimes find themselves drifting

apart from friends they’ve had for years. (“Teen Girls”, 2017) Kylie even encourage other people

that are really shy and tries to communicate with them or add them into group to hangout. She

doesn’t care what raise you are; what religion you are or what gender or how you look Kylie will

always be nice to you if your nice to her. Overall when it comes down to Kylie talking she will

approach you in the class room, outside, in the gym, it doesn’t matter. Overall Kylie can balance

healthy relationships with whomever, and respect who ever. Besides Kylie talking with other

peers she doesn’t have a close bond or listen to what my parents say half the time. Which results

in fighting within the family. “The relationship between adolescents and their parents is changed

by adolescent’s social development.” (“Join Our Email List”, 2017)

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Intellectual

She has no problem with homework assignments she is given in her classrooms. Kylie is an over

achiever in her class, her GPA is 4.1. Kylie likes to call her book smart not common sense smart.

If she doesn’t know a question she said she won’t answer because she doesn’t want to be wrong.

Kylie’s is advanced to the point where she can have one on one talks about real life experience

she is facing that our mom faces too. “Because older teenagers are more intellectually advanced

than a child or younger teen, adults can have more back and forth conversations with them.

(“Ages 15-18: developmental Overview”, 2015) Kylie will participate in demonstrating for the

class. But is very impatient to wait for her turn. Kylie is impulsive, she raises her hands as soon

as the teacher says something. Kylie is great with problem solving on the daily. She is great at

social studies, and memories the states test, and president test. Her way for studying for the

president’s test was to sing the presidents song underneath her breath. She said she has had time

with mathematical but gets extra help from the teacher to complete the assignment if she doesn’t

understand. Kylie is taking AP government, pre calc honors, English honors and student aid, with

taking all honors and can handle her new job at in-out handling both and having organization

skills. Kylies triarchic perspective is great, she was even doing as good as is this year in Junior

year when she was 16 years old. “Most studies show that abstract reasoning, memory and the

formal capacity for planning are fully developed by age 15 or 16. (Harvard Health, 2017) Kylie’s

not taking consist of writing it down then taking the notes and then type them up. “Howard
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Gardner believes that technology has a role to play in fostering the development of

intelligence” (Snowman, McCown, 2012)

! Column1 kylie's normal for the age

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Recommendation for Teachers/ parents

Kylie is very fun to be around in the classroom. She doesn’t need much running around doing

activity in the classroom due to playing two sports. Kylie has great self-esteem but lack

emotional development along with trust from others. Maybe mother could focus on getting her

help for her emotions, she doesn’t really know how or why she is feeling it only that a guy broke

her heart and trust. Kylie isn’t like most students she needs higher level material to push her into

new stuff or tweak it to make it harder or to think more about the assignment. Kylie makes class

fun because she is very into participating in the little activity’s or questions that teacher ask.
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References

Social Development During the Teen Years. (n.d.). Retrieved March 13, 2017, from http://

my.clevelandclinic.org/childrens-hospital/health-info/ages-stages/adolescence/hic-Social-

Development-During-the-Teen-Years

Stages of Adolescence. (n.d.). Retrieved March 13, 2017, from https://www.healthychildren.org/

English/ages-stages/teen/Pages/Stages-of-Adolescence.aspx

Teen Ages and Stages: Your 16-to-17 Year Old. (n.d.). Retrieved March 13, 2017, from https://

lakesideconnect.com/teen-issues/teen-ages-and-stages-your-16-to-17-year-old/

Ages 15-18: Developmental Overview. (2015, March 26). Retrieved March 13, 2017, from http://

www.parentfurther.com/content/ages-15-18-developmental-overview

Facts: Sports Activity and Children. (n.d.). Retrieved March 13, 2017, from https://

www.aspenprojectplay.org/the-facts

Cespedes, A. (2015, December 08). Diet & Exercise Plan for 17-Year-Olds. Retrieved March 13,

2017, from http://www.livestrong.com/article/279677-diet-exercise-plan-for-17-year-olds/

Zeggert, E. (2014, January 17). How Fast Can You Decrease Your Body Fat Percentage? Retrieved

March 13, 2017, from http://www.livestrong.com/article/486358-how-fast-can-you-lose-body-fat-

percentage/
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Stages of Adolescence. (n.d.). Retrieved March 13, 2017, from https://www.healthychildren.org/

English/ages-stages/teen/Pages/Stages-of-Adolescence.aspx

C. (n.d.). Join Our Email List! Retrieved March 13, 2017, from http://recapp.etr.org/recapp/

index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.TheoriesDetail&PageID=336#social

Dautaj, J. (n.d.). Teen Girls. Retrieved March 13, 2017, from http://teens.lovetoknow.com/

Teen_Girls
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