Assignment task: Sugarman's activity asks you to map out (draw) your lifeline so that you can identify the peaks (highs) and troughs (lows) that you have experienced over your life. This visual representation helps you to take note of the significant moments in your life. Do not include graph in your paper. It is only for you to reflect on the following prompts:
- What is its general shape? Does it continue to rise throughout life?
- Does it depict peaks and troughs around some arbitrary mean? Alternatively, is there a plateau and subsequent fall in the level of the curve? Is it punctuated with major or only relatively minor peaks and troughs?
- The horizontal axis represents time; but how about the vertical axis-what Life-span development dimension does that reflect?
- What (or who) triggered the peaks and troughs in the graph? Why did they occur at the time that they did?
- What might have been done (or was done) to make the peaks higher and the troughs shallower?
- How might the incidence and height of the peaks be increased in the future? And the incidence and depth of the troughs decreased?
- What positive results emerged from the troughs and what were the negative consequences of the peaks?
Once you have spent time considering the shape and reflections prompts, write your reflective paper based on what you learned from the article and by completing the activity.
Do not format your paper in a question-and-answer approach (solely answering the prompts). Instead, your paper should be written as a reflective paper based on the insight from the article and experience of mapping out your lifeline acknowledging your peaks and troughs.
Follow APA writing standards and formatting guidelines which includes a title and reference page (these two pages do not count toward your required page count). Your reference page should include the Sugarman article since you will likely cite this source within your paper. Minimum length 3-FULL pages double-spaced with 12-point Times New
Roman font with 1-inch margins.