Spring Fling Fun!

Last week the middle school had Spring Fling. Here are a few pictures...enjoy!

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Extra Credit

The students have a final opportunity for extra credit. They can complete one of our TV sheets by watching a family based show at home. It can then be turned in for credit. (Just remember the show has to be about a family!)

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.