Sunday, September 30, 2012

Project Work

Project Rubric


Mask Sketch Critique


Mask critique directions:
1. Each person in the group explains their mask and answers any questions.
2. Critiquers critique silently, in writing
3. Give oral feedback
4. Rotate until your whole group has gotten a critique
5. Turn in for a grade – Graded on specificity of suggestions and engagement with the activity



TEA paragraphs


Write one TEA paragraph that could appear in your essay.
(Graphic Organizer for TEA paragraphs)


Thursday, September 27, 2012

Weekend Homework: Design your mask!!!


Low-stakes seminar:  Does education create class mobility or reproduce social inequality?

Weekend Homework:  Come Monday with an annotated sketch of your mask.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

PLASTER!

Mask-making:  Part 1


Freewrite #6:  What's on your mask?   Brainstorm your mask design.
How will you represent your identity/socialization?
What symbols will you use?
How will you integrate the mask's elements so that it works as one cohesive piece of art?
How will you innnovate?  What's original, interesting, unique about your mask?
Do you need any outside materials?

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Social Class and The Outsiders

Starter #11:  What does it mean to be an outsider?

IN GROUPS-
1. Put on your sociology lens to analyze the story.  Let's get intellectually critical.
2. Discuss your answers to the film questions.
3. Write down 7-10 connections you made between The Outsiders and sociology.  These should be interesting, striking connections, not just:  "Ponyboy lives in society."
4. Write your best five on the back board.


Social Class Norms and Stereotypes Grid


Homework:  Read and annotate the assigned excerpts from "Savage Inequalities."  Complete the Reverse Outline.  Due Thursday.

Come tomorrow ready to plaster!!!

Monday, September 24, 2012

The Outsiders


Starter #10:  How has your social class played a role in determining  your identity?  How would your life be different if you belonged to another social class?




Film Questions:  due tomorrow!

1. Discuss the conflict between the Greasers and the Socs and relate it to social class identity.  What influence do class differences have on the young people in the story? 
2. Can you relate The Outsiders to the groups/cliques you have experienced or observed?
3.  How are the characters in the story socialized into their identities?  Choose
4.  What is the message of The Outsiders?  Use evidence from the film to back up your perspective!  What can we learn from the experiences of Ponyboy and the others?

Friday, September 21, 2012

Starter #9:  What does tolerance mean to you?  Why is it important for society?

Extreme Intolerance:  The Westboro Baptist Church
How do we see the cycle of socialization in the Westboro Baptist Church?

Freewrite #5:  How has your thinking about identity changed or expanded this week in our discussion of gender?  What are your takeaways?


Intro to Social Class Identity




Social Class Identity Survey

Group Brainstorms:  Social Class Norms and Stereotypes




Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Gender Identity Spectrum

Low-stakes Seminar:  Gender Identity and Ma Vie en Rose

Mini-lesson:  Sex, Gender, and Sexuality






Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Ma Vie en Rose

Starter #8:  Do you have any part of your identity that you are in conflict with?   Why is it a conflict for you?  If you do not have a conflict, reflect about why you think identity conflicts occur.  Consider the sociological concepts we have discussed thus far.  

Film Screening:  Ma Vie en Rose




Complete Film Questions:
1.  When does Ludovic's identity come into conflict for him?
2.   How does Ludovic’s conception of his identity change as he comes into contact with his “looking glass self”?
3.  What are some of the social repercussions of Ludo’s identity crisis?
4.  Discuss how Ma Vie en Rose relates to socialization.  (Give evidence for your perspective!)

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Gender continued


Starter #7:  To what degree do you agree with the article you read last night?  Are the claims the author made about the teenage social groups of your gender true in your experience?


Discuss the article with members of your own sex.  Do the claims that the article make ring true?

FOUR CORNERS

Gender Norms and Stereotypes




The Good Wife’s Guide (1955) and The Insult that Made Mac a Man (1972)
1.      What are the messages about gender norms?
2.      Have things changed?
3.      What is still the same?


In groups:  Brainstorm gender norms and stereotypes for each gender.

“Act Like a Man”

“Be Ladylike”









Dove Real Beauty



HOMEWORK:  Freewrite #4:  How have you been socialized into the norms of your gender?  What are some of the influences that have “taught” you how to be your gender, both explicitly and implicitly?  What are some examples in your daily life of how you conform to these roles or break away from them?

TAKE THE CONVERSATION TO EDMODO!!




Monday, September 17, 2012

Gender Identity

Mini-lesson:  Extended Metaphors

"Slip of the Tongue" by Adriel Luis

SOLO: Read and Annotate.  Talk to the text.  Ask it questions.  Comments.  Make personal connections.  Underline or circle confusing things.  Underline or highlight memorable and important things.  Annotate for the following elements:
·      1. What did you find striking or beautiful?
·      2. Confusing?
·      3. Metaphors?
·      4. What is the extended metaphor in the girl’s response?  Identify subsidiaries of this metaphor.
IN GROUPS:  One person should scribe your group's answers.
·      1. Does the poem take a perspective on race?  Explain.
·      2. What can we infer about the male in the poem?
·      3. What can we infer about the female in the poem?
·      4. What is the message about identity?

Four corners:  Gender





Homework:  Read and annotate the assigned article for your gender.  Girls read "Cliques and Popularity." Boys read "Boy World."

Friday, September 14, 2012

Precious Knowledge

Starter #6:  “If we just begin to appreciate differences, and treat each other with respect, then everything will be alright, and there will be no oppression.”  Respond to this statement.  Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?



 
Freewrite #3:  React to the film.  Give your perspective on the ethnic studies program.  Can you relate this film to the concepts we have been discussing in class (identity, culture, the cycle of socialization)?

Optional Weekend Homework: Take your reactions to Edmodo and drop some intellectual dialogue.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Seminar: American Born Chinese

Turn in your seminar prep to my inbox!

Homework:
Seminar Reflection!!!  Don't forget to give yourself a grade!

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

NWEA's

Seminar Tomorrow!

Please come to class tomorrow ready to seminar on American Born Chinese.  You are responsible for answering the prep questions in writing before the seminar (scroll down to find them!).  If you are having trouble with the plot, please come to a plot coaching session @ lunch or during my office hours 315-5 TODAY!

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Starter #5:  A Girl Like Me
How does the video relate to the concept of the looking-glass self?

Discuss:  "The Complexity of Identity" and "The Cycle of Socialization"








What are the daily effects of white privilege?

Unpacking "The Invisible Knapsack"






American Born Chinese:  
Seminar Thursday!


Please come to seminar prepared, having read American Born Chinese.  Answer the following questions in writing.



Seminar Prep Questions (due Thursday at the beginning of seminar)

1.  What is the main message of this book?  Support your answer with examples from the text.
2.  How does the story connect to identity and/or socialization.  (Again, examples from the text...)
3.  Even if you are not Chinese, how can you relate to this story?





Monday, September 10, 2012

The Cycle of Socialization

Starter #4:  Complete this sentence in as many ways as you can think of:  "I am ______________." Make a list in your comp book.

"The Cycle of Socialization":  Application Activity

Homework:  "The Complexity of Identity."


Reading:
  • Read the text.
  • Annotate!!  Underline or highlight main ideas.  Mark lines that stand out to you.  In the margins, agree or disagree with the text.  If you’re not sure what the author is trying to say, mark it with a “?”.
  • Write at least two questions at the end of the reading (NOT questions about what words mean!)

Questions:
1.      Does your “I am” exercise match the conclusions reached by Tatum in her article?  Describe how it does or does not, and give an explanation for why.  (hint: look at pages 20 and 21)
2.      In what ways are you dominant?  In what ways are you subordinate?  (hint: look at page 22, first paragraph) 
    1. Example: I am dominant because I am white and heterosexual, but I am subordinate because I am a woman.
3.      How have you experienced your dominance in your life?  Your subordinance?
    1. Example:  I have experienced my dominance because as a white person, I am never followed in stores or pulled over because of my race.  I generally feel like I “fit in” when I go places.
    2. Example:  I have experienced subordinance because as a woman I am sometimes afraid to walk alone at night, and I fear male violence.  Also, people expect me to be skinny.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Quiz: Culture, Identity, and Socialization

Weekend Homework:
Read and Annotate "The Cycle of Socialization."  Use the vocabulary inference handout to try to make out words you don't know.
As you read and annotate, complete the handouts:
Learning Goals from "The Cycle of Socialization"
Vocab Inference Grid


Edmodo Participation Rubric
I encourage you to discuss the article or any other class content on Edmodo this weekend!

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Socialization Continued

No starter

Sociology Lecture, cont'd

Freewrite #2How has your identity been influenced by one or more of the socializing forces we discussed here today?

Quiz Tomorrow!

Study Guide for Quiz

*Look over all PPT notes!  Link to Powerpoint google document

*Be able to define and give examples:

  • Culture
  • Material and non-material culture
  • Values 
  • Norms
  • Sanctions
  • Folkways, Mores, Taboos 
  • Subcultures, Countercultures 
  • Socialization
  • Feral Children
*Be able to explain the concept of the “looking glass self.”

*Know the difference between explicit and implicit socialization.

*Be able to identify the “agents” of socialization, and be able to discuss how you have been socialized by them.

Nature v Nurture: Socialization and Feral Children

Culture, Values, and Norms Practice

Starter #3:  With which statement do you agree more?  Why?
                   a.  Who I am is up to me
                   b.  Society plays more of a role in who I am

Feral Children reading/videos
Oxana
Genie

Freewrite #1:  What does the evidence about feral children seem to suggest about the nature/nurture argument?  Use the word socialization to explain your answer.


Have you returned your signed letter?  Have you created an Edmodo account?



Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Sociology: Culture, Values, Norms

Starter #2:  How did you interact with culture over the three day weekend?

Project Overview

Sociology Lecture: Part 1