Sept 2  - 5

• Icebreakers
• Teacher test
• People treasure hunt
• Pig picture
• Exploring human motivation
• Interview a partner about their summer activities
• Find out WHY they engaged in them - what motivated their actions?
• Write a brief (4-8 sentence) news article explaining
• Include a title
• motivation notes
• Read pages 14-22 in text, answer questions Sec 1 (#1,3) and 2 (#1,2,3), Define "The Scientific Method"
• Syllabus

Sept 9 - 13

• Introduction to Sociology
• Materials (text covered, 3-ring binder, planner, disks) for Tuesday
• The Scientific Method, PHEOC and the envelopes
• Independent vs dependent variables
• Notes and Questions
• HWK - write a hypothesis about life at JM and label the IV and the DV
• Nature vs. Nurture
• What do you think?
• The Blank Slate
• Black athletes
• Differing Views
• Harlowe experiment - Response to "The Young Monkeys" reading (What would happen if the experiment were conducted on humans?)
• No weekend homework, but quiz Tuesday on material covered to this point

Sept 16 - 20

• Measures of central tendency
• Test on Tuesday
• Discovering ancient cultures
• Homework for Monday: Reading and questions from the text:
• Page 33 - 37 question #1
• Page 38 - 42 questions #1,2
• Page 47 - 54 question #1
• Page 54 - 58 questions #1,2
• Page 59 - 60 question #2

Sept 23 - 27

• Components of Culture (notes)
• Curious look at how future generations may view us...
• Take the cultural test and view some silly laws
• Grad Standard assessment #1 - Due Wednesday October 9 (Leif Erikson Day)
• Totem assignment
• Begin Culture Comparison project
• Brainstorm
• Library time
• Culture Comparison assignment - Due Monday October 7
• The Gods Must Be Crazy
• Ethnocentrism: judging cultures in terms of the values and norms of one's own culture
• Cultural relativism: cultures should be evaluated from the standpoint of its own setting

September 30 - October 4

• Grad Standard assessment #1 - Due Wednesday October 9 (Leif Erikson Day)
• Culture Comparison project work; due next Monday
• Totem assignment
• The Gods Must Be Crazy

October 7 - 11

• Computer lab to type up grad standard assignment
• Culture Comparison project work; due next Tuesday (date change!!)
• Grad Standard assessment #1 - Due Wednesday
• Finish Cultural Comparison presentations
• See the pictures from the Culture presentations
• Hand out TV watching sheet and Media Log, due Wednesday
• Quiz Monday on the Culture unit (review sheet here)

October 14 - 16 (Short week - MEA conference)

• Quiz Monday on the Culture unit (review sheet here)
• Begin Media unit
• Brainstorm forms of media
• Purposes of media notes
• Socialization and advertising
• TV watching sheet and Media Log due next Monday
• Test retakes Wednesday
• HWK for Monday - bring in a popular magazine

October 21 - 25 

• Advertising techniques
• Assignment - find 4 ads and label
• the product being sold
• the ad technique useed
• how you know that specific technique is used
• Gender and advertising
• How 17 magazine undermines young women
• Magazine survey form
• complete, as a pair, one for a "women's" magazine and one for a "men's"
• Objectification of women - computer lab exercise

October 28 - Nov 1

• Gender and advertising
• Act like a man/be ladylike boxes
• analyzing a print ad
• Class activities - sex in advertising and ad analysis
• Biff and Bambi: exploring gender stereotypes
• Create and present stereotypical stories based on Biff and Bambi images 
• Read The Paper Bag Princess
• Objectification of women - activity to create a woman from magazine representations

Nov 4 - 8

• Killing Us Softly 3 video
• Disney video watching for sterotypes and the Disney movie analysis
• Read Looking Pretty, Waiting for the Prince (reading quiz)
• Read pages 328 - 339
• Page 328: Answer question #1
• Page 339: Questions 1,2,3 and the Critical Thinking
• Stereotype Poetry

Nov 11 - 15

• How valid are these gender roles today?
• Bad dude?
• Q's 342 #1,4, 345 #1, 350 #1, 2
• TV and reality checklist
• November is Native American Month
• Native American Logo paper project

Nov 18 - 22

• November is Native American Month
• Native American Logo paper project - DUE FRIDAY!
• Patterns of discrimination
• Crossword
• Worksheets
• Notes
• Flowchart

Nov 25-26

• Test on prejudice and discrimination

Dec 2 - 6

• Affirmative action 
• case reading/vocab
• pros and cons
• debate
• things to think about
• Discuss Stereotypes in Star Wars

Dec 9 - 13

• Social class and Stratification
• Reading and questions page 96 - 109
• pg 100: Q's 1, 3, 4
• pg 109: Q's 1, 2, 4, 5, Critical Thinking
• In class work:
• Your thoughts on social class in the USA
• US income statistics
• Wage rates by occupation

Dec 16 - 20

• Graduation Standard Project
• List of 15 questions for interview
• To Library to prepare
• Use Yearbooks
• Use R-Books
• Roger and Me video

HAVE A GREAT BREAK

Jan 2 - 3

• Graduation Standard Project
• Finish in computer lab
• Due on Monday

Jan 6 - 10

• Graduation Standard Project due on Monday!
• Begin final assignment - Current Issues Teaching Assignment

FINAL REVIEW STUDY SHEET!