Physical Description Of Child Development

Physical Description of Child
Carmen is a 16-year-old girl attending Hollywood Senior High School. She was born on December 10, 1998, which makes her exactly 16 years and 10 months. She is 5 feet 1 inch tall, brown eyes, and black hair. She notes that her hair is naturally dark brown, but she recently dyed it black to cover up the previous bright purple hair dye. She weights 125 pounds. According to her age group, she is average height and weight (Feldman, 2015). She was wearing dark purple glasses at all times. Today, she was wearing a black Batman t-shirt, tight navy blue jeans, and purple Converse sneakers. Based on the way her peers were dressed, she had control of choosing her own clothing style and/or colors especially since her school does not require school uniforms. Her clothing was appropriate for light movement and physical activity, but her tight jeans provided limited mobility. The reason Carmen was chosen for this observation was because she is my sister and her French high school teacher agreed for me to be able to observe her during class. Today, students will have the opportunity to present their French group presentations in front of the whole class.
Description of Environment
In the classroom, approximately 30 individual chair desks were located throughout the class. The chairs are all aligned facing the middle of the classroom. The white board was placed towards the far right side of the classroom. As one enters the main door, Carmen was seated towards the far end on the right side of the classroom. She had a clear view of the board. The walls were decorated with student assignments and French posters.
As Carmen entered the classroom, she had a graphic calculator on her right hand. This meant that in her prev...

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...orning. No matter how much someone might explain to her the benefits of a routine schedule, she raises an argument (Feldman, 2015).
From a social and personality perspective, her identity-versus-identity-confusion stage has given her some positive outcomes. For instance, she is aware of her uniqueness and she has embraced that. She enjoys art and anything that has to do with freedom of self-expression. The moment she took art class last year in her old high school and was the only student to pass with an A, she knew there was something unique about her. Most of the time her teacher used her art assignments as examples for her class and other classes to see. She described it as the easiest and most exciting class she had ever taken (Feldman, 2015).

References
Feldman, R.S. (2015). Discovering the life span (3rd edition). Pearson Education, Inc., New Jersey.