Lesson Plan for the week of 4-29 to 5-3
This week we will be studying Population and Urbanization Chapter 16
Friday 4-26 start chapter 16 terms
Monday 4-29 continue chapter 16 terms
Tuesday The dynamics of Demography
Wednesday World Populations
Thursday Populations and Urbanization
Friday Urban Ecology
Sociology Lesson Plan April 23 to 26th
This week we will watch the movie Soylent Green. We will be discussing the theory of Man-Made Global Warming, the effects of world population on the environment, the impact of pollution on the environment, and the potential for false science to be used to promote political agendas. This discussion is going to be approached from the social, not environmental, science viewpoint. We will not be making definitive statements on the impact of human society on the environment but rather looking at how these definitive statements on the environment impact human society.
This week we will begin a research Paper over violence in social media, Movies, Video games etc. and how or if it influences social behavior.
Monday No class Teacher Work day.
Tuesday Introduction to online data bases guest speaker Carol Stewart
Wednesday Research day find a minimum of 5 sources to study on the topic.
Thursday Study day read an analyze the material you have to form a thesis.
Friday Write your thesis and present it for review and grading.
Monday-Tuesday March 25th-26th Write and submit your Paper.
This week we are focusing on Sports and Competition. How do different people become interested in or not interested in sports? What makes a person good at a sport while another person with equal opportunities does not become good? How does Conflict theory apply to sports? Our sport will be a game called Star Fleet Battles. I selected this game as I expect non of the student have ever heard of it and thus will start with equal knowledge. A basic rule book will be provided and limited guidance will be provided by me. The Test for this topic will be a classroom discussion over the results of the game play who did well and who did not and the underlaying reasons why. Students are NOT graded on their win/loss record they are graded on participation and the ability to clearly discuss the final outcome.
This week we will study Culture the knowledge, language, values customs, and physical objects that are passed from generation to generation.
This week we will be looking at groups and social interactions, We will use the game Dungeons and Dragons as a role playing game to assign students to roles in a group. After the group has attempted a mission we will discuss how the different characters played differing role in the accomplishment of the mission.
This week we will be watching the movie Failsafe and discussing topics of War, Government Authority social class, Inequalities of Race, and gender in the 1950’s and 60’s, Gamesmanship, and Ethics in Research.
In the next few weeks we will be watching The Boy on Striped Pajamas. As we watch the movie we will be discussing several issues including Religion and Sociology, Collective Behavior, Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity, and Power and Authority. This is a powerful movie on the Holocaust and will create emotional responses any parent who deems this inappropriate please inform me and I will provide an alternative assignment.
Week 3 Aug 28
Teaching days 5
Students will explore culture and social structure. The student examines world cultures. The student is expected to:
(A) identify the elements of culture to include language, symbols, norms, and values;
(B) explain how the elements of culture form a whole culture; and
(C) give examples of subcultures and describe what makes them unique.
(4) Culture and social structure. The student understands types of groups and their functions. The student is expected to:
(A) describe models of primary, secondary, formal, informal, and reference groups and e-communities; and
(B) analyze groups in terms of membership roles, status, values, mores, role conflicts, and methods of resolution.
M GURPS character creation, T C2 Terms W-F Roleplaying with GURPS Focus on societal stratification and Communism.
Week 1 Aug 17th
Thursday and Friday Introduction and One Survivor Remembers
Week 2 Aug 21
Teaching days 5
Students shall learn
(A) to describe the development of the field of sociology.
(B) identify leading sociologists in the field of social science, including Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, Herbert Spencer, Max Weber, and Karl Marx, and interpret their contributions to the foundation of sociology; and
(C) identify sociologists such as W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Robert E. Park, Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams, Robert Nisbet, and Julian Samora and interpret their contributions to the field.
(2) Foundations of sociology. The student understands how society evolves and cause and effect of social and institutional change. The student is expected to:
(A) differentiate types of societies such as hunting and gathering, agrarian, pastoral, industrial, and post-industrial;
(B) identify and describe the types of societies that exist in the world today;
(C) examine changes in U.S. institutions and society resulting from industrialization, urbanization, and immigrant assimilation; and
(D) analyze information about cultural life in the United States and other countries over time.
Text book C1 S1-3
M C1 Terms T Lecture, W-F Introduction to GURPS, Friday C-1 Test