Monday, December 10

One of my favorite films!



Much Ado About Nothing Film Reaction
(Turn in at the end of class)

Thursday, December 6th

Exhibition/Project Debrief!

Reflection and DP update
On the Humanities tab of your DP, post the following elements by the end of class Friday:
1. Title of Project (Socialization and Liberation: Identity Mask Project)
2. Photo of your mask (Jessica has photos, or you can take a new one)
3. YOUR Essay!
4. A 5-paragraph Reflection that answers the following questions

REFLECTION
Paragraph 1:  DESCRIPTION
Topic sentence: In this project, we.....
Include reference to:

• Content
• Project
• Exhibition

Paragraph 2:  YOUR PROJECT
Describe the approach you took.
Answer: What are you most proud of about your project

Paragraph 3:  REFINEMENT REFLECTION?
If you could go back and refine something about your project, what would it be?
What goals do you have for future projects?  How might you do things differently?

Paragraph 4: EXHIBITION
Describe your experience at exhibition.
What profound conversations did you have?
Include at least one example of a moment that stands out in your mind.

Paragraph 5:  REVISIT ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What are your greatest takeaways from having done this project?  What enduring understandings do you have now about your identity, your socialization?  Your liberation from the cycle?

SEND JESSICA THE LINK TO YOUR completed DP by FRIDAY at the end of class

Monday, December 3rd

Woohoo!  It's time to exhibit this project!

Finish everything today!

TO-DO List

1. Finish Mask!
2. Final Essay Refinements
1. Conference with Jessica?
2. Is there TEA flowing out of your thesis statement?
3. Have you set up all your quoted material correctly?
4. Give your essay a title
• Center, 14 pt font
• Name underneath centered 11 pt font

Thursday, November 29th

Prepare for Critique
Sit in Critique Groups with your mask
Open your essay and highlight the thesis statement.
Underline each topic sentence.
Share your essay with your other group members.

Critique
Read each person's essay (while looking at the mask?) and comment on the following, according to the rubric.

• Which category of the rubric is this project excelling in?  What do you like most about the project?
• Which category of the rubric needs most work?  GIVE SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS.
• What questions or additional commentary do you have about this project?

WORK TIME AND CONFERENCES

Tuesday, November 27th

One Week Until Exhibition!!!!!

Let's re-orient ourselves.....

• Re-read: Project Overview
• Go over the rubric and complete the questions on the back on the paper.
• Share out!

If you have not submitted a draft to me, you are prohibited from working on your mask until you do so!

Draft of essay for peer critique due Thursday, November 29th.

Tuesday, November 13th

Some thoughts after spending the weekend with your essays....

The best ones have frames or extended metaphors guiding them.  Often these metaphors are the symbols in the mask.  (Props to those of you who are doing this!)

• What is the frame or metaphor guiding your essay's content?

THESIS STATEMENTS!!!!  When in doubt, let it occur at the end of a cleverly crafted intro that hooks your reader!  Most often, you should incorporate your frame or extended metaphor into the thesis.

• What is your essay's thesis statement?

STRONG TOPIC SENTENCES.  These should dictate your paragraph's content. Each paragraph should address ONE subtopic.  And then you steep your TEA.  If you need to, outline first (or reverse outline if you are already drafted out.  Use this outline template if it helps.  

• What are your subtopics?  Can you craft strong and clear topic sentences for each?

SENTENCE CRAFT.  The marks of quality sentences are conciseness and clarity.  Please work to eliminte wordiness.  It may help if you read your essay out loud or have someone read it to you.  And for the love of language, PROOFREAD!!!!

• Where can you improve your sentences?

SETTING UP QUOTATIONS.  Use the handout to reviseyour quote set-up or add some material from the Sociology content.

Monday, November 12th

Hello, my students!  This is the week when the projects come together!  Thanks for working diligently to make that happen!


 

MASKS AND ESSAYS DUE FRIDAY!!

If you got me your draft on time, you should have my feedback.  If you haven't submitted me a draft, PLEASE DO SO ASAP!!!!

As you work on your masks today, please take care of paints, brushes, resources.  Clean up after yourselves and be responsible Ospreys.

PROJECT RESOURCES:

• Project Overview
• Essay Outline Template
• Rubric
• MASK SLIDE SHOW
• Folder of Model Essays

Thursday, November 8th

MASK SLIDE SHOW

Draft due tomorrow!

• Project Overview
• Essay Outline Template
• Rubric

Tuesday, November 6

Do one more Mask Essay Analysis from the essays in the folder.

WORK DAY:
1. Essay prewriting and outline!  Draft due Friday! 
2. Mask refinement and artistry?

Monday, November 5th

Starter:  Write a working thesis on the whiteboard.

• Review the project description.
• To what degree is your thesis addressing the essential questions of the project?
• REVISE?

Let's chat about thesis statements....

• What makes for a good thesis statement?
• Thesis Statements: Mask Essay

Model Essay Analysis
Choose an essay to read in this folder (or ask Jessica to print one!)
Fill out the analysis electronically or on paper.

Friday, November 2

Mask Sketch Critique
Groups of 3:  Fill out the paper for each of your group members.  Give them feedback and suggestions verbally (and give them the paper!)


Sample Essay

• Identify the thesis of the essay.
• Underline each topic sentence:  What subtopics are addressed?
• What evidence does she use?
• What course content does she connect to?

Your essay!

• What might be your thesis?
• What subtopics might you address?
• DRAFT (due next Thursday for my feedback)

Thesis Statements due Monday!

Thursday, November 1st

Project Rubric


Sociology Content Brainstorm (in partners or groups of 3) 

• Look back over all of your writing and notes.
• Look back over your readings.
• Make a list of topics and ideas that we have covered in this class.
• Think about which elements of the course content might be relevant to your project. What might you integrate?

Here is our collective brainstorm.


WORK TIME
Mask Sketch Critique tomorrow!

Tuesday, October 30th

Share out on the Cycle of Liberation.....

PROJECT BRAINSTORM!!!

1. Identity and Sociology Word Maps

2. Mask Sketch (critique on Thursday)

3. Essay pre-write

Monday, October 29

Read and annotate, “The Cycle of Liberation.”

Respond in writing:

1. Explain the meaning of this quote in your own words:
• "As people come to a critical level of understanding of the nature of oppression and their roles in this systemic phenomenon, they seek new paths for creating social change and taking themselves toward empowerment or liberation.”
2. In what ways do you see (and not see) our society going through the transformation described in the reading
3. In what ways do you wish to--or do you already--engage in the Cycle of Liberation in your life?  (How are you part of the change?)

With remaining time:

1. Finish Seminar reflection and submit to Jessica

2. Essay prewrite?

3. Mask sketch?

Thursday, October 25th

Socratic Seminar: Mexican Whiteboy

Seminar Reflection/Self-Assessment (due Monday)

Tuesday, October 23rd

Finish The Outsiders

Discussion

• Film Guide
• Make Connections!

Finish Mexican White Boy?


SEMINAR PREP Mexican White Boy

1. What masks do the characters in this book wear? Choose one characters to answer this question. (How might their outward identity be in conflict with their inner life?)
2. How have the characters in this book been socialized into their identities? Choose one character to answer this question.
3. How much control do we have to choose our own identities?  How much is determined by the life we were born into and how much is our own personal creation? Use the characters from the book as evidence of your answer.
4. What makes for beautiful prose in literature? Choose a striking quote from the book and explain why it impacts you.

Monday, October 22nd

Film Screening: The Outsiders


Complete Film Viewing Questions

Friday, October 19

Welcome, James!

TO-DO List for Today
1. Mask Sketching
2. Essay Brainstorming

• What might you write your essay about? Make a list, 

3. Read Mexican White Boy (check reading guide here)
4. If you finish the novel early, you can begin to write the seminar prep. (see questions below)

SEMINAR PREP Mexican White Boy

1. What masks do the characters in this book wear? Choose one characters to answer this question. (How might their outward identity be in conflict with their inner life?)
2. How have the characters in this book been socialized into their identities? Choose one character to answer this question.
3. How much control do we have to choose our own identities?  How much is determined by the life we were born into and how much is our own personal creation? Use the characters from the book as evidence of your answer.
4. What makes for beautiful prose in literature? Choose a striking quote from the book and explain why it impacts you.

Thursday, October 18th

Process Reflection (on paper!)
1. What have you learned so far in this class about IDENTITY and how it is formed?
2. What are some reasons that it can be complicated to figure out who you are and how you fit into society, especially when you are young?

GET YOUR MASK!!!
Let's Circle UP and share....

Initial MASK sketches....

Reading Time!

Tuesday, October 16

Starter: Make two new notecards: one that introduces your SLC and one that concludes it.  

• INTRO: Welcome your parents and thank them for coming.  Share with them the Strengths Explorer results and answer the following questions: 
• Who are you at home?
• Who are you with your friends/peers?
• Who are you at school?
• CONCLUSION: Thank your parents and share with them your overall goals for this year.
• Example:  Thanks so much for being here to support me in my growth, mom!  This year, I want to be more motivated, at home and at school.  I am going to spend less time on my gadgets, so that I can be more present with my family and friends!

SLC Peer Critique

1. Groups of 3
2. Practice your SLC, using your notecards for all your classes.
3. Give each other feedback, using the rubric as a guideline.  For each person's presentation, jot down 2 things that are strong about the presentation, and two suggestions for refinement.

Reading Time: Mexican White Boy
Reading Guidelines and Dates
Through page 123 for tomorrow.  Continue to annotate and engage with the text.  Make connections!

Monday, October 15th

Starter 10.15:  In what ways are you thriving in school right now?  In what ways do you need to improve your game?

Student Led Conferences are on Wednesday!
SLC PREP DOCUMENT

SLC Reminders
Professional Dress!
Be on time!  Your parents scheduled it, so they should know your time.
Bring evidence!


Reading Time: Mexican White Boy
Reading Guidelines and Dates
Through page 106 for tomorrow.  Continue to annotate and engage with the text.  Make connections!

Friday, October 12th

Starter:  Take a moment to look over your annotations.  Look for a passage in the text that you find to be beautiful prose:)

Small group discussion

One person should scribe main points of your group’s conversation.  You could cut and paste the questions into a google doc, answer them, and share it with Jessica.  Or you could jot down main points on a piece of paper.  Bulleted lists and incomplete sentences are fine.

Discussion Norms:

1. Discuss, don’t just answer the questions
2. Answer every answer fully and give examples when you can (reference the text)
3. Everyone on the page in the text you are discussing
4. Redirect side conversations
5. Balance who speaks
6. Ask questions if needed
7. No talking to other groups

Mexican Whiteboy Discussion Questions

1. Each group member should share one significant annotation.
2. Read to each other the passage you identified as beautiful, deep, or striking.
3. Why is Danny experiencing an identity conflict?
4. How do Danny’s different communities socialize him in different ways?
5. How do race/ethnicity play a role in Danny’s identity? In Uno’s?
6. On p. 29, Senior says to Uno, “a leopard can never change his spots” as he shares some wisdom about life and identity. What might be the significance of this line/scene in the overall message of the book?
7. On p. 52, Randy (mom’s boyfriend) says “choice gives a human being a sense of empowerment.” How might this represent a privileged worldview?

Large Group Discussion

Race, ethnicity, Mexican Whiteboy, White People, Why is Victor so upset?

JOURNAL 10.12:  What are some ways that your race and/or ethnicity have impacted your identity?

DUE TODAY!!!

Edit your Mean Girls paragraphs. Please highlight T, E, and A in each paragraph, as I have done here.  Submit to me by email today if you have not done so already. 

Read Mexican White Boy pages for Monday

Thursday, October 11

Starter 10.11:  The Color of Fear "Red Ground Scene"
Using some of the vocabulary we studied yesterday, react to this clip.  What is being communicated between these two men?  Why is Victor so emotional?


Documentary: MTV's White People


Journal 10.11:  React to film. What new perspectives did you gain from this film?


Reading time: MWB
Annotate!

Wednesday, October 10

Starter 10.10:  (On paper)

1. How close are you to done on your Mean Girls quiz?
2. How do you feel about your ability to craft a TEA paragraph?
3. What are you struggling with in Humanities right now (TEA paragraph or otherwise)?

Reading Plans: Mexican White Boy

Race/Ethnicity Vocabulary: Key terms for our continued study of oppression

Is race “talked about too much”?  Would an attempt at colorblindness be better?

Daily Show: “The R-word”

Which of our terms do we see represented in this video?  Jot down connections as you watch.

The people in the video say to Samantha Bee:

“White privilege affects every aspect of your life.  It’s part of your identity.”

“It’s at the intersection of a lot of different things. Part of the privilege of being white is not having to feel uncomfortable just existing and thinking a police officer is going to profile you just for what you look like.”

Let’s unpack these statements, shall we?

We are going to be looking at this concept in the novel as well.   Be caught up with the assigned pages BY TOMORROW! ! Please read through 57 by Friday!

TURN IN YOUR MEAN GIRLS PARAGRAPHS!!!!!

Monday October 9--Tuesday, October 10

Mean Girls


Mean Girls Sociology Assessment


HOMEWORK:
Read Mexican White Boy (through page 39 due by Wednesday)

Friday, October 5th

TEA paragraph practice
Write a TEA paragraph about the Sociology content. Make a claim about gender, relating it to the "Cycle of Socialization," Queen Bees and Wannabes, comments of the panel, or anything else that stands out to you.  I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE you to use a quote from one of the readings as part of your evidence.  You will have to do so for your Mean Girls quiz, so it's good to get into the habit now. 


Mean Girls quiz prep:  YOU WILL NEED YOUR ANNOTATED READINGS, so be sure you bring them next week. (Harro and Wiseman)


Mask Refinements
Reading Time (Mexican White Boy through page 39 by next Wednesday)

Thursday, October 4th

TEA paragraphs!


Example:
My Best Work:  Go Lions!


Practice paragraphs on the back of the handout:
Annotate Paragraph #2 for T, E, and A and show me when you are done....


Let's write one!
Make a claim
What is the evidence?
Can you analyze the evidence in a way that connects it back to the claim made in the topic sentence?


The Mean Girls quiz will require you to write multiple TEA paragraphs analyzing the sociology concepts in the film.


Mask Refinements
Sanding, Mod Podge


Assign Novel: Mexican White Boy (through page 39 by next Wednesday)

Wednesday, October 3rd

Strengths Explorer: Welcome, Jess and Janae!

Tuesday, October 2nd

Starter 10.2:  Watch the video, “My Princess Boy”

How does society react to individuals who break gender stereotypes? Why do they respond that way? Is gender intolerance socialized?

Discuss our takeaways from the reading.  What was surprising or enlightening?

Trans 101: Some gender stuff defined

What questions might we have for our panelists?

Welcome Panel!

Monday, October 1

Starter 10.1:  Interpret the quote and connect it to the Cycle of Socialization.

“So while we as good men don’t perpetrate the violence, we are part of the collective socialization, the fertile ground that’s required for the violence to exist.”

Trailer: Miss Representation (This full film is on Netflix.  I HIGHLY recommend watching it, for both boys and girls.)

Debrief The Mask You Live In and make connections to the Cycle.

1. Get out Harro reading. Look at the last few sections called “Enforcements,” “Results,” “Actions,” and “The Core of the Cycle” (pp. 49-51). Find a quote from each of these sections that you can relate to the film we watched on Friday or to the ideas we viewed in the trailer for Miss Representation. Share out.

2. Review together “Choosing the Directions for Change”

How might people break the cycle of toxic masculinity that negatively impacts our culture? How can we contribute to a cycle of positive socialization?

Read/annotate for tomorrow: Transgender History

Friday, September 28th

(If you are absent, this film is on Netflix)

The Mask You Live In Film Response: Write a well-developed paragraph that connects this film to the other concepts and ideas we have been discussing in class. (Typed and shared with me is fine, or you can write it neatly and turn it in the box.)

Thursday, September 27

Yesterday's Seminar, continued.....


Seminar Reflection:

1. What was something an individual said in the opposite seminar that really stood out to you or made you think differently about an idea? What did you learn from listening to the opposite gender talk about their experiences?
2. What are the similarities and differences between what boys go through and what girls go through?
3. Is Rosalind Wiseman mostly right about the teenage experience in our culture? Did you find yourself agreeing or disagreeing?

Tuesday, September 25

Starter:  4 CORNERS

• Women are naturally more nurturing and caring than men
• Men are not judged by their appearance as much as women are
• Women and men are only different because of what they are taught by society
• Men and women are treated equally in US society

Gender Norms and Stereotypes

The Good Wife’s Guide (1955) and The Insult that Made Mac a Man (1972)

• What are the messages about gender norms?
• Have things changed?
• What is still the same?

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

“Act Like a Man”	“Be Ladylike”

Work Time:
Read/Annotate chapter from Queen Bees and Wannabes

Monday, September 24th

Starter: Dance Party

Discuss this T-shirt:


Is this a problem?
Are people too sensitive?



Masky Mondays!
Trimming, Sanding, and Plaster of Paris



Read and annotate: Gender specific article from Queen Bees and Wannabes
"Cliques and Popularity" (Girls)
"Boy World" (Boys)

TURN IN YOUR SEMINAR REFLECTION!!!!

Thursday, September 20

Verbal Starter: What is one connection you have made so far between the book and the class content?



Finish American Born Chinese


Seminar Prep Questions
Please answer thoroughly in writing for Thursday’s seminar.  Use EVIDENCE to support your answers.  

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 socialization?  (Again, use evidence/examples from the text...)

3.  Even if you are not Chinese, how can you relate to this story?

Seminar Norms:
1. Dialogue, NOT debate
2. Be polite!  Don’t talk over each other.
3. Hard on content, soft on people
4. Clarify and question
5. Define your terms
6. Stay open minded, but don’t let your brain fall out
7. Don’t assume that the text has all the answers
8. Participate!

Conversation Movers
1. I respectfully disagree with the point that ____ made, because…
2. Hmmm, I’m confused about what _____ said…
3. I’d like to comment further on what _____ said…
4. I’d like to move on from this topic/discuss a new question…
5. I’d like to make a connection between…
6. Here on page ____ , we see…

Seminar Rubric and Self-Assessment

Friday, September 21

American Born Chinese Socratic Seminar

Seminar Prep Questions
Please answer thoroughly in writing for Thursday’s seminar.  Use EVIDENCE to support your answers.  

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 socialization?  (Again, use evidence/examples from the text...)

3.  Even if you are not Chinese, how can you relate to this story?

Seminar Norms:
1. Dialogue, NOT debate
2. Be polite!  Don’t talk over each other.
3. Hard on content, soft on people
4. Clarify and question
5. Define your terms
6. Stay open minded, but don’t let your brain fall out
7. Don’t assume that the text has all the answers
8. Participate!

Conversation Movers
1. I respectfully disagree with the point that ____ made, because…
2. Hmmm, I’m confused about what _____ said…
3. I’d like to comment further on what _____ said…
4. I’d like to move on from this topic/discuss a new question…
5. I’d like to make a connection between…
6. Here on page ____ , we see…

Seminar Rubric and Self-Assessment/Reflection

Wednesday, September 19

Starter 9.19:  Interview with the director that made The Problem with Apu
Relate what you have heard here to something you read in "The Cycle of Socialization"

Reading time for American Born Chinese

Post-it notes annotations!  Woohoo!



Seminar Prep Questions
Please answer thoroughly in writing for Thursday’s seminar.  Use EVIDENCE to support your answers.  

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 socialization?  (Again, use evidence/examples from the text...)

3.  Even if you are not Chinese, how can you relate to this story?

Tuesday, September 18

Starter 9.18:  Watch the following video and discuss the question below.  What does this have to do with what you read? Why should we study a theoretical framework for oppression?

Group reading of the Cycle

• Compile a vocabulary list!  
• Work through the reading, identifying main ideas and clarifying meaning.
• Do you need help finishing the reading guide?

If you are finished, you can preview the graphic novel American Born Chinese.  We will spend tomorrow reading it in class and preparing for a Socratic seminar on Thursday.