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AP Psychology, Psychology, Sociology, Government 10, AP Government, Study Skills, Language Arts for English Language Learners, Law & You

For the Week of: September 8-12, 2008
PSYCHOLOGY
Monday	Objective: Students will describe the six main contemporary perspectives in psychology. Chapter 1, Section 4 covering pages 18-21.
Tuesday	Objective: Students will review Chapter 1
Wednesday	Objective: Students will take the Chapter 1 Test.
Thursday	Objective: Students will be able to list and explain the steps scientists follow in conducting scientific research. Chapter 2, Section 1 covering pages 24-29. Answer questions on page 29.
Friday	Objective: Students will explain the survey method and the importance of proper sampling techniques. Chapter 2, Section 2 covering pages29-34. Answer the review all questions on p. 34.
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Sociology
Monday	Objective: Students will discuss the theories and ideas of August Comte, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. Students will also compare and contrast the three main theoretical perspectives in modern sociology. Chapter 1, Section 2 covering pages 9-17.
Tuesday	Objective: Objective: Students will discuss the review sheets covering Chapter 1 and review for the test.
Wednesday	Objective: Students will take the Chapter 1 Test. Assign: Chapter 2.
Thursday	Objective: Students will define culture, and differentiate between material and nonmaterial culture, recognize how sociologists distinguish between the terms culture and society, identify and discuss the five basic components of society, and explain how folkways differ from mores. Chapter 2, Section 1 covering pages 23-30. Hand out review sheets.
Friday	Objective: Students will describe the three levels of culture, and understand how the three levels are interrelated. Students will also assess the significance of the culture studies completed by George Murdock and Margaret Mead, define cultural universals & explain why they exist, discuss cultural variations among societies, and interpret the related issues of ethnocentrism & cultural relativism, and finally to distinguish between subcultures and countercultures. Chapter 2, Section 2 covering pages 31-39.
GOVERNMENT 10
Monday	Objective: Students will be able to summarize the relationship between democracy and free enterprise. Chapter 1, Section 3 covering pages 18-25. Answer questions on page 24 and complete the Section 3 Review Sheet. Benchmarks 1.1, 1.1.2, 3.2.1, 5.5.1
Tuesday	Objective: Students will name the ways the United States has modified the free enterprise system. Assign Chapter 1, Section 4 covering pages 26-30. Complete the review sheet for section one and the vocabulary terms. Answer questions 1-5 on page 11.
Wednesday	Objective: Students will review Chapter 1. Assign: Chapter 1 Test on Thursday.
Thursday	Objective: Students will take the Chapter 1 Test. Assign: Chapter 2
Friday	Objective: Students will explain why colonists expected representative government. Chapter 2, Section 1 covering pages 34-41. Complete questions on p.40, #s 1-5.
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Language Arts for English Language Learners
Monday	Objective: Warm up activity for all students on "Subject of the Sentence". Group 1: Students will make flashcards of vocabulary words. Complete p. 3 in the Practice Book concentrating on vocabulary words. Group 2: Practice Book p. 114 on writing commands.
Tuesday	Objective: Warm up activity on "The Complete Subject". Group 1: Students will read "The Lion King Goes to Broadway" covering pages 15-19. Answer the question in writing on p. 18 Group 2: Student will read "Earthquake at Dawn" covering pages 228-231. Answer questions on p. 231
Wednesday	Objective: Warm up activity on "Predicate of the Sentence". Group 1: Students will read pages 20-23. Answer questions on p. 23. Practice with possessive nouns. Group 2: Student will continue reading on pp. 232-236 about Earthquakes. Answer questions on p. 232. Practice book using Earthquake Words on p. 115 in the Practice Book.
Thursday	Objective: Students will complete the warm up activity on "The Complete Predicate". Group 1: Students will work on using descriptive language using specific words, sensory detail, and comparisons to help the reader "see" the event or scene. Group 2: Students will work with indefinite adjectives and ordinals when writing. Practice Book--p. 116. Assignment on writing explaining the sequence of an activity.
Friday	Objective: Warm up activity on "Compound Predicates". Group 1: Students will work on relating main ideas and details on p. 5 in the Practice Book. Group 2: Student will work on contractions when writing. Practice Book--p. 117.
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AP Psychology
Monday	Objective: Students examine psychology's subfields. Lecture/discussion on Psychology's important role in basic scientific research, applied research and challenges to psychology's international development. Video
Tuesday	Objective: Students will complete the video and review.
Wednesday	Objective: Prologue Test. Assign: Chapter 1
Thursday	Objective: Students will examine the need for psychological science, the limits of intuition and common sense, the scientific attitude and the scientific method. Read and take notes on Chapter 1 covering pages 19-51.
Friday	Objective: Students examine the limits of intuition and common sense. Video: Discovering Psychology, Updated Edition: Understanding Research. Lecture topic: Misremembering the Causes of Behavior
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