1 ½ week Program of Studies Outline: Activities: Social Stratification Modified lecture/discussion (understanding): Racial And Ethnic Relations Analysis of graphs/charts Gender, Age, and Health Debate Terms: Assessments: (skills and concepts): Social stratification, social inequality, caste system, Students will write a exogamy, endogamy, class system, bourgeoisie, response to a bellringer proletariat, social class, wealth, power, prestige, question everyday. This socioeconomic status will be used as either a quiz Reputational method, subjective method, objective of previous day’s material Core Content method, social mobility, horizontal mobility, vertical or a spring board to the mobility, intergenerational mobility new day’s topic. SS-HS-2.1.1, Poverty, poverty level, life chances, life expectancy, Terminology quizzes: 2.2.1, 2.3.1, transfer payments These will be 5-10 term 2.3.2 Race, ethnicity, ethnic group, minority group quizzes to check Discrimination, prejudice, legal discrimination, vocabulary. institutionalized discrimination, stereotype, self-fulfilling All larger tests and prophecy, racism, scapegoating, cultural pluralism, assessments will be assimilation, segregation, de jure segregation, de facto application/essay. segregation, subjugation, slavery, genocide, ethnic Students will need to apply cleansing their knowledge to a White ethnics sociological situation. Gender, gender roles, gender identity, patriarchy, sexism, women’s movement, suffrage, wage gap, glass Resources: ceiling, second shift Sociology: The Study of Ageism, graying of America, baby-boom generation, Human Relationships dependency ratio, Medicare, Medicaid Managed care, alternative medicine Students will Contrast the theories of social stratification Explain how different motivations and cultural values influence the American class system Describe the steps that have been taken by the federal government to lessen the effects of poverty Summarize how sociologists define the terms race, ethnicity, and minority group Explain how government policies have affected the lives of minority groups in the United States
1 ½ week Program of Studies (understanding): (skills and concepts): Core Content SS-HS-2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.3.2 Outline: Social Stratification Racial And Ethnic Relations Gender, Age, and Health Terms: Social stratification, social inequality, caste system, exogamy, endogamy, class system, bourgeoisie, proletariat, social class, wealth, power, prestige, socioeconomic status Reputational method, subjective method, objective method, social mobility, horizontal mobility, vertical mobility, intergenerational mobility Poverty, poverty level, life chances, life expectancy, transfer payments Race, ethnicity, ethnic group, minority group Discrimination, prejudice, legal discrimination, institutionalized discrimination, stereotype, self-fulfilling prophecy, racism, scapegoating, cultural pluralism, assimilation, segregation, de jure segregation, de facto segregation, subjugation, slavery, genocide, ethnic cleansing White ethnics Gender, gender roles, gender identity, patriarchy, sexism, women’s movement, suffrage, wage gap, glass ceiling, second shift Ageism, graying of America, baby-boom generation, dependency ratio, Medicare, Medicaid Managed care, alternative medicine Students will Contrast the theories of social stratification Explain how different motivations and cultural values influence the American class system Describe the steps that have been taken by the federal government to lessen the effects of poverty Summarize how sociologists define the terms race, ethnicity, and minority group Explain how government policies have affected the lives of minority groups in the United States Activities: Modified lecture/discussion Analysis of graphs/charts Debate Assessments: Students will write a response to a bellringer question everyday. This will be used as either a quiz of previous day’s material or a spring board to the new day’s topic. Terminology quizzes: These will be 5-10 term quizzes to check vocabulary. All larger tests and assessments will be application/essay. Students will need to apply their knowledge to a sociological situation. Resources: Sociology: The Study of Human Relationships
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