Tags: food, food insecurity, FST, health, income, nutrition, obesity, PSA, sociology
Make like Little Orphan Annie and get excited for… TOMORROW!
24 May
The big day is here – tomorrow is the SAP FST fair – The Great Canadian Awareness Fair. We will have an opportunity to share our PSAs with the other SAP classes and learn about their topics – including prisons, abortion, homophobia, and other fascinating subjects. The school community, including Mrs. Fox and Mr. Vernon, is invited to attend.
If you haven’t already, please e-mail me me your brochure so I can make copies by 8:30 tomorrow morning. Also, please send me a link to your video (or the video file) so I can organize and stream them.
Good luck!
Tags: FST, hsp3m, summative assessment
FST Rubric
19 MayHi Everyone,
Here is the rubric for all components of the FST. Remember that you are responsible for TWO of the 15% components. When you hand in your final product, please indicated which two you worked on. The written report is due by June 3 on turnitin.com. I will not accept late submissions. I will explain how to submit it and give you some more specific guidelines for the paper in class today.
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Stop actively opposing reality...GET TO WORK! Good luck!
Tags: assessment, FST, hsp3m, rubric
Pioneers of the Social Sciences: Margaret Mead (by Ashleigh)
19 MayLIFE AND TIMES
o Born in Philadelphia on December 18, 1901
o Eldest of the family – had 3 siblings
o Married three times
o Was told by her doctor she wouldn’t have any kids – in her last marriage she had one child
o Attended DePauw University for a year then transferred to Barnard College
o Earned B.A. in Sociology at Bernard College
o Friend Ruth Benedict convinced her to become an anthropologist
o Received Ph. D from Colombia University
o Settled and began expedition in New Guinea with second husband – studied development of children in the Manus culture and teenage behaviors in the Samoan culture
o Went on many expeditions
o Died of cancer in 1978
RESEARCH
o Anthropologist
o Focused on women’s roles, parenting, and other definitive gender roles in primitive cultures as well as characteristics of American society
o Went on multiple expeditions
o Published twenty-six books
o Found that human nature is flexible
o Thought that masculine and feminine characteristics are a result of cultural conditioning/socialization and not primary biological or genetic differences.
IMPACT
o Promoted sexual revolution which in itself promoted promiscuity – modern day North American society is overall much more sexually-charged than it used to be – could be with the assistance of Mead
o Did a study of adolescent girls growing up in Samoa – controversy as to whether her methods of research were valid because they were unscientific
o Mead would go to a place and immerse herself in its culture, learning the language, taking part in activities, observing the people & asking them questions
o Broke many restrictions present in twentieth-century American society
o Was one of the first to suggest that masculine and feminine characteristics are a result of cultural conditioning/socialization and not primary biological or genetic differences
o Successfully raised awareness of the limitations and problems American culture the related stresses that were mostly apparent amongst teenagers
o Her findings are still valid today but controversial nonetheless
Tags: anthropology, ashleigh, margaret mead, New Guinea, pioneers, Samoa
The Great Canadian Awareness Fair – Location
17 MayThe Great Canadian Awareness Fair will be held at Project Support on Wednesday, May 25 in C101. IMPORTANT: Wednesday is a 3:06 day so PS begins at 11:04. All three SAP classes will be displaying their PSAs. Bring your own laptop, or reserve one from the library – we will be playing your videos for our guests. I will also project the videos on a large screen.
Would anyone like to volunteer to make a poster to advertise the fair around the halls of the school? We want other students to visit the fair and learn from your PSAs.
In class on the day of the fair, each group will informally present their PSAs to the class.
FST drafts due tomorrow!
4 MayReminder – tomorrow is a work period in the upstairs computer lab. Your drafts are due (printed & submitted to me) at the end of the period.
These drafts should indicate to me that you have conducted a significant amount of research to substantiate your ideas with social scientific terms and theories. By this point you should also have narrowed down your focus in all three fields (from 5 broad questions to one or two of the most significant questions for each field), and planned out roughly what you plan to include on your board, a storyboard for your video, and the target and rough content of your brochure.
This is part of your process mark for the FST.
Good luck!
Tags: FST
FST – A Rough Calendar
28 AprWelcome back, everyone…it’s the final countdown! Most of this month will be spent working on the FST in class and in the labs. Here is a rough schedule – not set in stone.
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