Sociology

Last week we started a unit on Sociology. Due to time constraints (5 1/2 days to be exact) I am focusing the unit on family. Today we talked about different types of families as well as decision making in a family. We will use all of this information for the remainder of the school year as we watch and compare different families.

The families we compare will be fictional, from TV. Yes, for the last week of school my students get to watch TV. However, as they watch they will be required to identify the type of family and answer some basic sociology questions about the family. All of the sheets the students complete will be turned in for credit. It will be the last grade of the year.

Psychology!

This week we have started studying psychology. This unit offers a very basic introduction to some of the concepts of psych. So far we have talked mostly about personality and the things that affect it. The students have made a personality profile showing me all about themselves.

Today and tomorrow we will be looking at different types of personality tests. Today we talked about analyzing signatures. The students have to analyze their own signature, two friend's signatures and two adult signatures. This assignment is due Friday.

Slacker

Oh my have I been slacking! The three of you out there that read this are probably wondering where the heck I have been. Well, I'm back.

Since my last post we have completed a whole unit on economics. We talked about scarcity and decision making, supply and demand and three different kinds of economies (command, market and traditional). The highlight of the unit was when the students had to pretend they were stranded on an island. They were forced to make decisions about how problems would be solved and what type of economy they had.

We had a partner test on Friday 4-23 to wrap up the economic unit.

This week we have started Psychology, one of my favorite units! There is an assignment coming up where the students will have to create a personality profile. These will be due Monday for 5th and 6th hour, Tuesday for 2nd and 3rd hour.

Deacde Posters

The kids did a GREAT job on their decade posters. We hung them up around the room, then the students were given copies of the quizzes each group made and they had to move around to the posters to find the answers. It went really well and the kids had fun checking out everyone's posters.

Research Project

For the past week the kids have been researching a decade of their choice. They were required to find information from the 50-90's in four categories; people, events, entertainment/fun and inventions. Each student was required to individual research for their decade. This research was due Monday. The students were given 20 points for having their research done, they will also be graded on this research later this week.

This week we have been working on the group project.
1. A poster with 10 pictures and 10 facts about the decade
2. A quiz with 10 questions about the poster and an answer key.

These projects are due at the end of the hour tomorrow.

The plan is that I will hang the posters around the room and the kids will take the quizzes by finding the information on the posters.