Film Analysis - Freedom Writers

To guide you in your writing:
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/film-analysis/

Prompt:
Compare and contrast the school culture in "Freedom Writers" to Hillgrove.
Explain the dominant narrative and the counternarrative presented in the film.
Use the following terms in your film analysis:
-cultural universals
-culture traits
-subculture
-counterculture
-cultural relativism
-ethnocentrism

Please edit your paper before submitting your link to this form:
https://forms.gle/1oGcDodyME2QaFNu7 

Culture Project Rubric - Suges Due Wednesday; HGS Due Thursday

Please see the following doc for all information and the rubric:

Culture Project Guidelines and Rubric!

Send your link to your project to this form if you are need a computer:
https://forms.gle/bu9DPcLG6hn5eJ87A

American Values Survey Link

Complete this Form:
https://forms.gle/Tt9gJMRA9V5xwLL4A

MY Cultural Icon

List your CULTURAL ICON ON THIS FORM
https://forms.gle/zTNYQwE4a1H33nXE7

Playlist 2019

Please complete:
https://forms.gle/qdU2RUpEnD3Ud4Fq6

Join Speech/Sociology Remind Group!

On your phone text number : 81010
Message: @grovesoc

Culture Project - I am SOOOO excited to see what you do!

Please see the following doc for all information and the rubric:

Culture Project Guidelines and Rubric!

Speech #1 Is Approaching!

We are finally getting to the big Speech Week. We are quite excited to hear your creations.

Once again here are the speech requirements:

Speech info:"People Say I am"
Speech Components - Actual Assignment
General Speech 5 Components Rubric
Sociology Components/Rubric:  Within your speech, I should hear...

1. a move from sociological perspective to sociological imagination.
2. the meaning/application/examples of sociological imagination embedded in your speech. 
3. one or more examples of the theoretical perspectives of sociology (Conflict, Structural Functionalism, Symbolic Interaction) 

*Please  understand you do NOT have to use these actual terms in your speech by name.  However, your speech should show a connection of you to your world and how world has shaped you in some manner.

After hearing all of the awesomeness of your peers, please complete the following form for our "Speech/Soc Superlatives":

VOTE FOR SPEECH SUPERLATIVES

The Truman Show Reflection

Please answer the following questions on the form linked below after viewing  

The Truman Show:

Truman Show Reflection

Week 1 and 2 Welcome to Sociology!

Welcome to Sociology! Unit 1 Culture and Social Structures

Thank you for choosing to take this class.  

We are embarking on a new journey together.  

Here is your syllabus and calendar for this course:

Syllabus

County Link to Digital Textbook: 

http://www.cobbk12.org/centraloffice/learningresources/hs.aspx#socialstudies

If you cannot access the above code, complete this form.

Cannot Access Sociology Text

Please sign-up TODAY for our class remind!

https://www.remind.com/join/grovesoc

We should have online text links and a class set of books soon.  In the mean time, here are your

RESOURCES for Unit 1 - The Foundations of Sociology.

Unit 1 Essential Questions and Vocabulary

Unit 1 QUIZLET Vocab

Crash Course Style:

What is Sociology? 

How do Sociologists Conduct Research?

Examples: Sociological Imagination

Causation and Correlation

Most People Are Bad At Arguing

Speech Sociology Capstone Speech

WOW!  We are almost finished with our inaugural classes for 2019!

Barber and Blackmon want to hear from you.

Complete this form before you begin!

https://forms.gle/mSyHnkKjFwj6TVsn6

If you are using a tech, link here: https://forms.gle/UYd4UgiLskSywJ3XA

The last project will be a mulit-media project of your choosing with this message:     

What is the Hillgrove Soc/Speech class about? 

What is Hillgrove all about?  

What advice would you give for future students?

Through this multimedia project and 3 minute speech you will discuss the following:
JUNIORS: Answer all questions.
1.  Why take this class? What is the point of the course to you? (Juniors)
2.  What was gained?  What was lost by taking this course? (Juniors)
3.  What advice would you give future students of this course? (Juniors)

SENIORS - Answer all 3 questions.
1.  What has Hillgrove High School meant to you? (Seniors)
2.  What was gained?  What was lost by being a student at Hillgrove? (Seniors)
3.  What advice would you give future students of Hillgrove? (Seniors)

RUBRIC: Rubric
Speech 30% - 5 components of a speech will be graded
Sociology 30% - Patterns, Culture, Socialization, Nature/Nurture, Adolescence, Adulthood, Deviance (You are to use vocabulary/theories/sociological perspectives to show your understanding of sociology.)
Pros/Cons 15 % - 5 total ; Be honest!
Advice to future students 15% - outlook and contributions
Multimedia component: 10% - what platforms were utilized? (Pick a visual...any visual! We know you can get creative here. Enjoy it!)

4.18-19 Lab Work - Due Upon Return to Blackmon!

Good morning sweet people.  Our nature/nurture journey continues.  (And yes, this is a grade.)
1.  Read this article:
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-today-compares-with-prior-generations/

2. Reflect and post on this link
https://forms.gle/2jgcsETibRrpBAtX9

3.  After your original post, and Ms. Blackmon has released the spreadsheet, go to this Excel spreadsheet and copy/paste two posts from your peers.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PByPfWJLoIeSLOsRy6oKS0iFneAwkkf-8ao_VBsSVYE/edit?usp=sharing

4. Paste your chosen excerpt into this form and respond/reflect to your peer on the form as well.
https://forms.gle/f48SaCLnb6fgXniq9


Other articles of interest:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-birth-order-personality-20190316-story.html 

Week 12 4.8-12 The Social Self

Here we go!  Last unit is all about you.

Link to your notes:
The Individual and Society
Twin Studies: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/nature-or-nurture-twin-studies-provide-answers-469840451643

Please complete the following survey before we begin:
Survey

Birth Order Articles and Quizzes:
1. https://www.gotoquiz.com/what_birth_order_personality_do_you_have

2.  Birth Order Characteristics

3.  Career Path and Birth Order

Final Speech info to come.