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9/3

^{No School} ^{No School}

9/4

Freshmen Only Freshmen Only

9/5

Can you see easily from your seat?

Can you hear easily from your seat?

What is your first impression of the classroom?

What is your homework?

When is it due?

9/6

How much sleep did you get last night?

Are you making healthy decisions in order to be ready for school?

Are you eating healthy food in the morning so that you have energy in block?

What are our names?

Can you spell them correctly?

Who have you met in this class that you did not know prior to this year?

9/7

Check in your phone: Carson & T Ho CNN Student News

The story that impacted me the most is _________________. It matters because _______________________

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1. What is your homework?

2. When are they due?

3. What are our two class goals and what will this look like for you?

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9/10

What life skills do you still lack?

What about the world of adulting scares you a little?

What was the best piece of advice from the senior panel that you will use this year?

Happy Birthday Melissa! The big 1-8!

9/11

Many of you chose Apartment and utilities set-up as an important

“adulting skill”.

What pitfalls arise when you graduate and immediately move out?

How can this impact your academic plans?

What part of Sociology do you look forward to learning about?

What aspect of our culture is fascinating or revolting to you?

Why?

9/12

CNN Student News

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Many of you chose Childcare as an important “adulting skill.”

When is the ideal time to start a family?

What are the benefits to being a young parent? What are the drawbacks?

p.s.-Picture retakes are tomorrow!!!

9/13

What is a generalization that you believe to be true?

What is a generalization that you do not believe to be true?

What was your takeaway from the moderated discussion? Did your mind

change about generalizations or stereotypes at all?

9/14

CNN Student News

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Have you registered for the SAT or ACT test?

Do you need to re-take it?

When are you going to sign up?

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9/17

Happy Monday!

Complete your Wellness Chart(pg. 14) for last week

Justify your rankings below…

What is your passion for your future?

What career will make you happy?

What type of major do you think that you might like?

9/18

How is the year starting for you?

Are you managing time well?

Are you completing your homework?

Are you taking care of all college prep? FAFSA, Email, RCC ID…

Are you practicing good self-care and getting enough sleep? Healthy Food?

Did your political typology align with “I Side With”?

Did you have any surprises?

9/19

Who is more likely to help you if you drop something- a friend or a

stranger? Why?

Is your research method effective?

Can you see any major issues or flaws in your method?

9/20

Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

Is it situational?

How does your personality affect your school experience?

What is your Meyers-Briggs personality type?

What does it mean?

Did any careers surprise you?

9/21

CNN Student News

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How much does your ideal life cost?

Does the career you dream of actually afford you that lifestyle?

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9/24

What is your homework routine?

Are you feeling the effects of not having one this morning?

Of the research methods, which do you feel is the most effective? Why?

Which has some inherent issues? Why?

9/25

What do you think that colleges actually want to hear on college application essays?

List at least 3 things…

What made this essay effective?

Why will a college reader like this?

What did we learn about David?

9/26

Go log on to a computer…

What makes group work effective?

Are you a positive contributor in a group? In which way? How?

Today’s Prezi making was an example of a “productive struggle”…

Give two more examples of productive struggle that you have experienced lately.

(that discomfort you feel is your brain learning new stuff!)

9/27

Today is the first public presentation of your own individual work.

What did you do well to prepare?

What could you have done better?

Look at our government and explain the function.

Manifest?

Latent?

9/28

CNN Student News

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Which person you heard about is considered the “Father of Sociology”?

“who’s sociology’s daddy?” ;)

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10/1

How would our country change if everyone, regardless of age, could vote?

When is the first draft of your college essay due?

10/2

Are you going to be a canvass kid or a table kid?

Which Saturdays are you going to set aside for your volunteer work?

Are you already mentally making excuses for not signing up that will affect your ability to complete your hours on time?

What are you most excited about when it comes to the Student Hunger Strike Force?

10/3

Were you prepared for your first Sociology exam?

Was your notebook complete?

Did you know all of the vocabulary terms?

What could you do better next time?

Tomorrow we will begin the process of finalizing your paper topic and creating a Thesis Statement.

What are some important factors in a good thesis statement? What does it do? What does it not do?

10/4

What is difficult about writing a college application essay?

What is easy?

Do you have a favorite paper topic? What are you going to argue? Stance? Issues?

10/5

CNN Student News

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What is the rationale behind your paper topic choice? Why is this the topic that you settled on? Has it been researched to death by other people? Is it current and relevant?

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10/8

Seniors: Which college at PNACAC was the best fit for you? Was there a school there that was new to you but sounded good?

Juniors: Which section of the SAT is the most difficult for you? Why?

Tomorrow is day one of street clean-up and Student Hunger Strike Force Canvassing. This Saturday is the first ACCESS Food Distribution.

What else do you have to put down as Community Service on

resumes/PEP/applications?

10/9

First Community Service Street Pick- up

First Community Service Street Pick-up

10/10

What value does community service have for you?

What value does it have for the public?

Guess how many meals yesterday’s canvassers provided by signing up 20 houses for Medford Food Project!

What social norms do you rely on?

What is a social norm that people break that drives you crazy?

10/11

CNN Student News

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Self reflect on your participation in the first round of lit circles. Were you an equal participant? Were you prepared?

Did you actually talk and contribute to discussion? Did you take over and lead?

Would you be willing to lead next time?

10/12

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10/15

Your conference artifacts are:

English: Topic/Thesis Packet Sociology: Chapter 1 Exam

College/Careers: College Application Essay

Do you have all three complete? If not, why? Are you proud of your effort or scores?

Have you completed your next Sociology Experiment, “Breaking a Social Norm?”

What did you do?

If not, what are you going to do this evening to be ready to share out tomorrow?

10/16

CNN Student News

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What purpose is a conference supposed to serve?

What purpose does it serve for you personally?

Is there something that you can do to make conferences more meaningful?

10/17

Conferences Conferences

10/18

10/19

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10/29

What is ethnocentrism? What types of

behavior define being ethnocentric? What was one ballot measure that you had never heard of that now makes more sense to you?

10/30

Make a prediction:

What is going to happen today in Gatsby?

What is negative about cultural relativism? Give an example.

10/31

What is culturally weird about Halloween?

How do we justify our weirdness?

What piece of Hmong culture conflicts with your personal culture?

Do any aspects intrigue you?

11/1

What is the green light that you are reaching for?

Has it blinded you to your current blessings?

Is there a piece of religious culture that you were raised with that you want to

maintain?

Is there a piece of religious culture that you want to release?

11/2

CNN Student News

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How was Sociology test #2?

Were you better prepared?

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11/5

Make a prediction regarding the mid- term election:

Who will be the next governor of OR?

Which ballot measures will pass?

Is it a red wave or a blue wave?

What were three main differences between the movie and the book?

Which one was positive?

Which one was negative?

11/6

What are the types of sources that are not allowed on a scholarly research paper?

Which types of sources are preferred?

Which url endings are the best?

Does your thesis statement still work after a first day of research?

Are you easily finding appropriate sources?

Any snags or roadblocks?

11/7

Respond to the Election Results Likes

Dislikes Questions Concerns

Freebie – Researched until the end of the period.

11/8

What is the issue with impulse control in this class lately?

Would a place of employment keep you personally based on your impulse control in this class?

How was your impulse control at the school wide meeting?

How successful were you doing work time today?

Do you take advantage of time to work or do you waste your time? (or that of others)

11/9

CNN Student News

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If you could add a NEW NEW American value to the list – based on your

generation, what would it be?

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11/12

11/13

Street Cleanup Street Cleanup

11/14

Does your family have a similar value line-up to the wall?

Do you have some differences?

Which?

If you could design a video game to teach morality and humanitarianism, what would it be like? Describe it!!!

11/15

Which of the Values on the wall is the most important to you personally and why?

Are you able to find appropriate and reliable sources for your paper?

Are your resources biased?

11/16

CNN Student News

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Where have you experienced sanctions?

Formal:

Informal:

Positive:

Negative:

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11/19

What are some ways that the business world indoctrinates Americans so that we participate in consumerism?

In what ways have you been consumed by advertising?

11/20

CNN Student News

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Why do we still have the death penalty?

Are you for it or against it?

11/21

½ Day ½ Day

What are your Thanksgiving plans?

Do you enjoy the weekend or is it stressful?

11/22

Thanksgiving Thanksgiving

11/23

No School No School

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11/26

How was your Thanksgiving break?

Was it conflict free?

Did you have to work? Did you participate in consumerism? Were

people polite?

What is the true cost of dehumanizing others?

11/27

We have “roaches” in our society that are currently being dehumanized.

Can you think of one group and why they are treated inhumanely?

Do you have any deep family secrets that have caused family strife or separations?

Was your family able to overcome the secret?

11/28

I choose to socially control you by moving your seats randomly.

What are some forms of social control that drive you crazy?

Which ones do you like?

Three things from the TED talk video.

11/29

What is cultural lag that you are seeing regarding the older generations and technology?

What did your group choose to study and why?

11/30

CNN Student News

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12/3

Talk to your neighbor about ONE thing currently happening in the news, and record what you talked about here.

https://theskimm.com/?r=4592b92d Sign up for the Skimm, skim today’s news, and then tell how receiving this just might help you be a contributing member of society.

12/4

Talk to your neighbor about ONE thing currently happening in the news, and record what you talked about here.

Which of the OSAC questions was the hardest to answer?

Which one did you totally rock?

12/5

After SOU research, do you have a better idea of what type of research is available to you?

Are you trying to write a paper that does not have readily available data?

Or perhaps one that is an unpopular opinion?

What part of research is the “productive struggle” for you?

How are you showing grit?

How are you showing defeat?

12/6

How many sources have you found that actually look as though they will be helpful for your paper?

Any arguments that still lack a source for back up?

What is a status that you want to achieve in life?

What is a role that you are expected to fulfill that you are not interested in?

12/7

CNN Student News

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Write a quote that you know that you will be using in your paper in MLA format here.

According to ACLU researchers, “This is your quote.”(Last Name #).

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12/10

What was an interesting fact you learned during your surveys with adults about their roles?

If you didn’t do your homework, who are you going to speak to tonight?

Have you personally seen or experienced the change in a person when they are given a special status or role?

What happened?

12/11

Street Clean up Response to police video

12/12

How many hours have you completed via the Medford Food Project?

You need at least 9 hours by the end of April…

Crater Foundation Information

12/13

What did you learn about your topic during the article review yesterday that you didn’t know before?

What did you learn about your research topic today during article review that you

didn’t know before?

12/14

CNN Student News

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We have one week until Winter Break.

What does your break look like?

Make-up or missing work?

Actual work?

College preparation…scholarships, applications, SATs…

FIRST FIVE…LAST FIVE … Name:_______________________

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12/17

the alumni had to give today? someone else?

Did you receive anything in return, even just emotionally?

12/18

Your Crater Foundation Essay is worth a minimum of $500. How much time will it take to earn your

$500? How much is that per hour?

What do you have for homework?

How many missing Essentials do you still have hanging out there?

12/19

What is your takeaway from Into the Wild? What is your lasting impression of the book/story?

What career are you interested in exploring for Internship? Any leads on where you could go? Can you contact them over break to start the process?

Who are “your connections”?

12/20

Today is a work day! What do you need to accomplish today?

Due tomorrow:

Notecards 16-25

Crater Foundation Essay

https://youtu.be/4WvwX18oMR4 SNL “Best Christmas Ever”

Does your Christmas Day ever feel like this?

What can you do to keep yourself mentally sane this holiday season?

12/21

What are your Winter Break plans?

What is your New Year’s Resolution for life?

For School?

FIRST FIVE…LAST FIVE … Name:_______________________

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1/7

What was the big stuff that happened

over the last two weeks? Is your group type a stabilizing or disrupting way of handling conflict?

1/8

Street Clean-up What type of conflict resolution do you need to do more of in your own life?

1/9

What type of Internship do you want to have?

Do you need science credit?

Have you made any contacts?

Have you ever met someone who seems as though they are unable to show or feel empathy?

What about someone who is an altruist or exceptionally giving?

1/10

What have you done in your life that was an altruistic act?

Have you done something that was callous without regret?

Who are our US/World Altruistic heroes?

Who are some well-known sociopaths?

1/11

CNN Student News

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1/14

What are the two things that take precedence over everything else for you? (most important)

1/15

Give one example in which you judged a person solely based on their vocabulary or pronunciation.

Post-industrial societies are based on ____________________, while industrial societies are based on

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(talk amongst yourselves…)

1/16

Tim Thomas says, “Hello!”

Why are some students ambivalent about their grades?

What has happened in our society that education is not taken seriously by many, unlike in many other countries?

What is one thing that you could do to become more empathetic?

1/17

We are on Day 26 of our government shutdown.

What aspects of culture have led us to this action?

What failures in our governmental system are evident?

What types of groups are you part of?

Do you need a new group?

1/18

CNN Student News

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What did you think about the ending of Pygmalion?

FIRST FIVE…LAST FIVE … Name:_______________________

Date: First Five: Last Five:

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1/21

1/22

Jill Layton from the Crater Foundation is speaking with you this morning to meet eligibility requirements for Crater Foundation Application.

Is your Crater Foundation essay edited? Are you ready to apply?

What are your finals tomorrow?

What do you need to study tonight?

1/23

What is a bureaucracy?

Take a guess. Talk to your neighbors. 4.5 Sociology

1/24

There are 40 Incompletes in English There are 37 Incompletes in Sociology There are 31 Incompletes in Internship Which categories do you fall under?

What are you doing today to fix this?

How has your paper topic and direction changed since you first started

researching?

1/25

CNN Student News

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Date: First Five: Last Five:

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