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Friday, February 24, 2017

Soc Day 23 - "What's So Great About America?"

Objective:  Define stratification as a sociological concept.

Task:  Good morning!  When you arrive to class, please open up your notes on stratification.  We'll continue our examination of the theories of class stratification.   Then, we'll spend the remainder of class discussing the American dream as presented in the D'Souza reading and the Freakonomics podcast.

Article Discussions - Article summaries & questions are due in Schoology dropbox by 9:00 am the day BEFORE your discussion (example: Students leading the "Moving Up" discussion on Monday, 3/6 should have work posted in Schoology by 9:00am on Friday, 3/3)
  • "Uses of Poverty" - Melissa, Mark, Megan, Sam, Lauren
  • "Nickel-&-Dimed" - Alexa, Allie, Anastacia, Reba, Jason
  • "Moving Up" - Patrick, Brianna, Gabbie, Zach, Luke
  • "The Upper Class" - Fox, Camryn, Nicole, Ben
  • "Global Stratification" - Aaron, Jordan, Joel, Emily
Homework:
  • TODAY - Deadline for Unit 1 Test Make-Up
  • TODAY - "What's So Great About America?" due before class
  • Monday, February 27 - Songs of Stratification sign-up due
  • Monday, February 27 - "Use of Poverty" summary & discussion questions due in Schoology by 9:00 am
  • Tuesday, February 28 - "Uses of Poverty" discussion circle
  • Wednesday, March 1 - "Nickel & Dimed" summary & discussion questions due in Schoology by 9:00 am
  • Friday, March 3 - "Moving Up" summary & discussion questions due in Schoology by 9:00 am
  • Friday, March 3 - "Nickel & Dimed" discussion circle
  • Monday, March 6 - "Upper Class" summary & discussion questions due in Schoology by 9:00 am
  • Monday, March 6 - "Moving Up" discussion circle 
  • Tuesday, March 7 - "The Upper Class" discussion circle
  • Thursday, March 9 - Completed unit 2 vocabulary due in class
  • Friday, March 10 - Sociopoly (through pd. 7 lunch)
  • Tuesday, March 14 - "Uses of Global Stratification" summary & discussion questions due in Schoology by 9:00 am
  • Thursday, March 16 - Last day to present "Song of Stratification"
  • Friday, March 17 - Unit 2 Test

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