Instructions:

Short Response #$1-$ Let's talk about cohorts

Describe the cohort into which you were born by answering the following questions:

In what year were you born? $(2002)$

Do you know of any important historical events that occurred at or around the time of your birth? If so$,$ list a few of them. How might those events have affected your development in your earliest years $($for example, by affecting the way your parents thought and behaved$)?$ How might those events have affected your cohort? Other cohorts?

What important events do you remember as having affected you and your classmates during your elementary school years $($for example, assassinations, space exploration, political upheavals or wars, natural disasters, technological trends$)?$ Describe how these events may have influenced your cohort's development.

How might the events you remember had a different effect on the development of people in cohorts different from your own?

Answer these questions by incorporating relevant text material with page numbers as required.