Psychology: Merchants of Cool

In case you missed it last week....

PBS Frontline: Merchants of Cool

Psychology: Mirror Mirror Activity

Directions: Use the below website to collect information on how different factors contribute to one's self-image. These findings are somewhat dated (almost 20 years) but they are extremely relevant still to life today.

Mirror, Mirror Website

Activity Document Download


Wrap it all up Question: The last few classes we have looked at the changes during Adolescence and some factors and forces that have affects on the changes taking place.  Answer this question as a comment to this blog post. 

What should all young men & women be aware of as they mature through adolescence regarding the Media, “Cool,” Puberty, & one’s Self-Image?

US History: A Visual Look At Immigration

Directions: Use the download below to take a visual look at immigration during this time period.

YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE FILE AS A POWERPOINT!!! DO NOT VIEW IT IN GOOGLE SLIDES!! IT WON'T WORK RIGHT!!!!

Answer the questions in your notebook after viewing the pics and looking at the information related to each

A Visual Look At Immigration

Psychology: Stand By Me & Piaget, Kohlberg, & Erikson

This week you are all watching Stand By Me and must collect information connecting what we are learning with the experience of the main characters in the film.

You all will then write an essay on what you have learned about each Psychologist and applying their theories of Development on the four main characters in the film.

Here you will find materials to use for the film and writing the essay in class and outside of class.

Documents you need for the film
Kohlberg's Moral Reasoning Theory
Erikson's PsychoSocial Theory

Document for watching the film
Stand By Me Analysis Document

Essay Resources -- You are writing a draft of your essay in class on Thursday and Friday!!!
Essay Information
Essay Rubric

US History: Labor vs. Management - Conflict Resolution

Directions: Download the links below and use the reading to complete the assignment by our next meeting.

Labor Unions, Strikes, Violence, & Achievement Reading

Activity Download

Healthy Kids Survey

Go to this site ----- HERE

Type in this school code: NT44ZW

• Its case sensitive so make sure to capitalize the letters

World History: Answers for Motives for Colinization Activity

Answers for Motives for Colonization Activity

World History: December 1-5 Weekly Work

While I am out you will have a number of things you will work on. Please follow all instructions in class and check back here for information to help you all keep on track.

BRING TEXTBOOKS TO CLASS EVERYDAY!! If there is time to spare work on Crossen Notes!! Chapter 11 - Due 12/12

Monday: Connecting Previous Unit With New One

• Using the definitions of the new terms (on the back of the worksheet), try your best to come up with as many examples as you can think of to connect how Industrialization leads to this new period of Imperialism, Nationalism, & Colonialism...

Tuesday: Map Work!

• Definitely will need textbooks & you will need to pay close attention to exactly what you will need to do!!!!
• Use my colored pencils to complete this activity but put them all away when you are done
• Also, don't forget to complete writing activity at the bottom IN YOUR NOTEBOOKS!!!!

Wednesday: Motives for Colonization -- PRINT OUT BEFORE CLASS

***IMAGES TO VIEW!! DOWNLOAD THIS ON YOUR PHONES!! IF YOU CAN'T SHARE WITH STUDENTS - Originals will be on the Big Table in plastic sleeves 

• You will be analyzing images and text from the time period and identifying the motives for colonization in each one 
• If you did not print out your own copy before class, copy down the chart on the handout!! I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH FOR ALL STUDENTS SO PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ON THE DOCUMENT -- hand in the original document at the end of class
• Create a hand drawn symbol that represents each motive
• Pay attention to the definitions of each motive as best you can!!
• Remember: there will be more than one motive present in most of the images!!!

Friday: Catch up day & Crossen Notes....Sorry

• If you had a hard time finishing up anything in class this week, make sure everything is done by the end of class
• If you are caught up, work on Crossen Notes -- due next Friday 12/12

US History: Weekly Work for December 1-5

The following assignments are to be completed in-class on the following days.

ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED IN YOUR NOTEBOOKS!!! 

CUT OUT EACH GRAPH AND TAPE IT IN YOUR NOTEBOOK AFTER YOUR QUESTIONS ARE COMPLETE!!! 

AT THE END OF THE WEEK ON FRIDAY YOU ARE TURNING IN YOUR QUESTIONS & GRAPHS TO THE SUBSTITUTE!!

Monday - Film - turn in notes at the end of the class
America: The Story of Us - Episode Cities
Notes for the film

Tuesday: Reading w/questions and Graphing Activity
YOU KEEP ALL READINGS FROM CLASS!!!
#1
#2

Thursday: Reading w/questions, Graphing Activity, & Processing Activity
YOU KEEP ALL READINGS FROM CLASS!!! 
#3
#4

Friday: Catch Up Day & CrashCourse!

Psychology: Response to Homework - within the first 30 min!!

Directions: Answer the questions below by commenting to this blog post WITHIN THE FIRST 30 MINUTES OF CLASS!! I'll be checking!! Use your phones for this activity... For those without phone access, partner up with someone and come up with joint answers.  Choose the Anonymous setting for posting a comment and type your first and last name in the body of the comment.

Video Questions:
1. Describe Piaget's staged theory in how human's develop Cognitively.
2. What is Animism and how does it relate to the Preoperational Stage?
3. What are the major criticisms of Piaget's theories? What other ideas have emerged from other Cognitive Psychologists?

InfoGraphic Questions:
1. What are some interesting facts about the developing brain that you didn't know before? Choose 2
2. What are ways to stimulate a toddler's brain throughout it's early development?
3. What do most medical and health experts say about the influence of "nature vs. nurture" on the developing child?

US History: 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back

Document: Using the reading on Reconstruction, follow the directions from the document entitled, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Remember to complete the the last part of the activity before you turn it in.

Download: Reconstruction Reading

Document: 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back

US History: Civil War Test Coming Tuesday Nov. 25th

We'll review on Monday before the test.... 50 multiple choice questions. Below is the list of terms you all need to know.  It is a document I usually print out and cut in half (top and bottom are the same terms).

Civil War Overview

Online Review Quizzes
Spark Notes
Regents Prep
Pre-Civil War Quiz

US History: An Introduction to Reconstruction

Directions: To learn about the Reconstruction era (post Civil War repairing of the Union), you will examine primary and secondary source material on the subject. Go to the below website and go through the exhibit.  As you do, take note and think about the reactions of different Americans to the changes that were beginning to take shape.  In the end, you will answer the following questions as a comment to this blog post.

Website: Reconstruction Online Exhibit

Questions to Answer:
1. What were the reactions to Reconstruction by the following groups of people? Use evidence from the exhibit to shape your answers
--Former Slaves in the South (now Freedmen)
--Northerners "occupying" the South
--Defeated Southerners

2. What effect did sharecropping have on African-Americans?

3. What did the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments do?

4. Describe why "Black Codes" were developed.

US History: 4 Long Years Reading & Assignment

If you missed class or lost your document....here it is!!

4 Long Years: The Civil War (1861-1865)

U.S. History: The CSA Mockumentary

If the South would have won....