Sunday, November 16, 2014

Period 1 Blessing Basket Suggested List (Sociology students)

Suggested List:
·         2 cans of green beans
·         2 cans of corn
·         2 cans of black beans
·         Bag of rice
·         Box of mashed potatoes
·         Can of yams (large)
·         Bag of marshmallows
·         Box of stuffing
·         2 jars of gravy
·         Apple juice
·         Pumpkin pie crust
·         Pumpkin pie filling
·         Chicken broth
·         Holiday paper goods and utensils for 8
·         Recipes*
·         Aluminum pans*
·         Holiday greeting card*
·         Holiday CD*
·         Cake mix & frosting
·         $15-20 gift card for turkey

   Please comment with your name and what you will be bringing so we can attempt to have as complete of a basket as possible for donation.  Have your things brought in by Wednesday. Thanks.  


Friday, November 14, 2014

Assignments for Monday, 11/17/14 and Tuesday, 11/18/14

These are the plans that were left with the Sub.  You are responsible for the work below.  

*Sociology (Per. 1)
Students should select five words from the list below and assess and explain how those words are seen in what they have viewed so far in the film “Mona Lisa Smile”.  Responses should be written in paragraphs and examples from the film must be used.


• compensatory education
• comprehensive education
• correspondence principle
• counter-school culture
• cultural capital
• cultural reproduction
• deferred/immediate
gratification
• deprivation – material and
cultural
• deschooling
• educational achievement
• elaborated and restricted
speech codes
• equality of opportunity
• ethnicity
• ethnocentric curriculum
• formal education
• gender
• gender stereotyping
• gendered curriculum
• hidden curriculum
• ideological state apparatus
• informal education
• inequality
• intelligence
• intelligence quotient
• knowledge
• labelling
• language
• marketisation
• meritocracy
• minority ethnic group
• positional theory
• peer group
• positive discrimination
• pupil sub-cultures
• self-fulfilling prophecy
• social class
• social capital
• social democratic theory
• social exclusion
• social inequality
• social mobility
• streaming
• vocationalism



*        Psychology (Per. 2, 3, 5, & 6):
Sleep Brochure Mini Project
Create a hospital brochure that discusses the importance of sleep. Specifically, your handout needs to highlight the benefits of sleep and some of the theoretical possibilities of dreaming.  Make it creative and interesting for the readers.  Include relevant images as well.  Images may be printed at home and brought in the next class period to add to the brochure.  The brochure must be completed by the end of the next class period on, Wednesday/Thursday.  You will have some class time that day, but the majority of the work must be completed ahead of time.
·         This is to be done in pair (2 people), not groups.
·         You will be graded on Content (40), Creativity (25), Neatness (15), and Presentation (20)
·         Information can be found on the internet, but must not be copied and pasted.  In your own words!  Points will be deducted if you don’t know what you are talking about.
*       
         US History Honors (Per. 4)

Students should complete the handouts on my desk by next class period.  If they do not finish in class, they may finish for homework.  They may use the class set of the blue Gateway EOC US History books for reference in class to complete the chart.  Please make sure they place all books back on the shelf at the end of the class period.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Assignments for Thursday 11/06/14 & Friday 11/07/14

I am out today and will need you to have the following completed by next class period.

Sociology, P. 1: Read the next section of your Education packet and answer the questions at the end of the section on your own sheet of paper.


Psychology, P. 2, 3, 5, & 6: Complete the following on your own sheet of paper.

a) Redesign the Mann (lying) study using another research method and describe how the study would be conducted. (10 marks)

b) Evaluate this alternative way of studying lying in practical and ethical terms. (10 marks)

* For a), you must consider the who, what, where, when, and how.  The study you design must be ethical.   For b), the strengths and weaknesses you discuss must be linked back to the study you have redesigned.


US History Honors, P. 4: Complete the multiple choice questions at the end of Chapters 5, 6, & 7 of the Blue Gateway EOC Review book as additional review for the test on Industrialization you were supposed to have today.  You should also continue to review the material that was posted on the blog.  Your test will be the following class period.

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