January 7, 2008	Discuss the format of the class, and introduce the students to the concept of Sociology. Handout and explain the "Lost at Sea" assignment parts 1 and 2.
January 8, 2008	Journal Entry #1 (What would you like your best memory to be of your senior year?) Complete the "Lost at Sea" assignment.
January 9, 2008	Chapter 1 - Notes - Define Sociology, Examine the social sciences, examine the sociological imagination. Vocabulary Worksheet.
January 10, 2008	Notes - Examine the origin of Sociology, discuss Sociologists - Comte, Martineau, Spencer, Durkheim, Marx, and Weber.
January 11, 2008	Journal Entry #2 (What can be gained by studing different societies and their culture?) Notes - Continue the Sociologists - Addams, Dubois, and Mills. Sociological Perspective - Functionalism, Conflict, Symbolic Interactionist.
January 14, 2008	TEST - Chapter 1 Class Rules Due.
January 15, 2008	Chapter 2 - Notes - Research methods - Quantitative and Qualitative, Field Studies, Case Studies, Surveys, Population - Sample, Open and Close Ended Questions. Vocabular Worksheet.
January 16, 2008	Journal Entry #3 (Why do you think that research is important in our society?) Have the student present survey topics. Notes - Field Research - causation, variables - quantitative, qualitative correlation.
January 17, 2008	Journal Entry #4 (How much of a role should ethics play in research?) Notes - Research Method Procedures steps 1 -7. Ethics in research. Survey Due.
January 18, 2008	TEST - Chapter 2
January 21, 2008	MLK DAY - DAY OFF
January 22, 2008	Chapter 3 - Journal Entry #5 (Discribe an aspect of your culture that has changed.) Notes - Culture - aspects of culture, society, nature vs. nurture, drive vs reflex. Chapter 3 Vocab.
January 23, 2008	Video - Countercultures - Jim Jones and the People's Temple. Jim Jones Worksheet.
January 24, 2008	Journal Entry #6 (Discuss your reactions to the Jonestown cult.) Notes - Sociobiology and middle ground. Journal Check #1.
January 25, 2008	Video - Countercultures - David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. David Koresh Worksheet.
January 28, 2008	Journal Entry #7 (Why, in your opinion, do people join this type of organization?) Notes - Language and culture, norms, folkways, mores, laws, and values.
January 29, 2008	Notes - Discuss cultural universals, material and nonmaterial culture.
January 30, 2008	Notes - 6 Factors for social change, resistance to change, subcultures and countercultures. Ch. 3 Vocab Quiz.
January 31, 2008	Video - Cults and counter-cultures, how they form, why they exist and what is the attraction.
February 1, 2008	TEST - Chapter 3
February 4, 2008	Chapter 4 Worksheets - Vocabulary and Guided Reading.
February 5, 2008	Chapter 4 - Notes - Socialization - functionalism, conflict perspective, symolic interactionism, self-concept, looking glass, role taking.
February 6, 2008	Journal Entry #8 (If you only keep up with one friend after high school, who and why?) Notes - Agents of socialization - family, school, peer group, mass media. desocialization, resocialization, anticipatory socialization. Extreme reactions and actions from youth to adults.
February 7, 2008	TEST - Chapter 4
February 8, 2008	Chapters 5 & 6 - Vocabulary worksheets.
February 11, 2008	Notes - Social Structure-Statuses, ascribed & achieved roles, role expectations, role performance, master status.
February 12, 2008	Journal Entry #9 (What status, that you currently don't have, would you klike to have one day and why?) Create a status chart. Chart contains six columns, label each starting with statuses, ascribed & achieved roles, role expectations, role performance, master status. Complete chart with 10 examples.
February 13, 2008	Journal Entry #10 (Do you believe that the advancements in technology have made us, as a nation, to reliant on technology?)Notes - Preindustrial, Industrial, Postindustrial societies- Hunter/Gatherer, horticultural, pastorial, agricultural, Information Age.
February 14, 2008	Notes - Groups - primary, secondary, reference, dyad, triad, aggergate. Journal Check #2
February 15, 2008	TEST - Chapters 5 & 6
February 18, 2008	PRESIDENT'S DAY
February 19, 2008	Chapter 7 - Notes - What is deviance? positive and negative deviance.
February 20, 2008	Journal Entry #11 (In your opinion are prisons for punishment or rehabilitation?) Notes - Functionalism, benefits to society, strain theory.
February 21, 2008	Journal Entry #12 (In your opinion is the death penalty right or wrong?) Notes - Hirschi 4 basic components of social bonds, Labeling theory, differencial association, conflict theory, race and crime. Types of crimes, Juvenile crime, crime control.
February 22, 2008	Video - Discuss the fastest growing crime in America...Identity Theft.
February 25, 2008	Video - Kid Crime - Criminal offenses commited by juveniles.
February 26, 2008	TEST - Chapter 7 (Deviance).
February 27, 2008	Journal Entry #13 (What is the one thing you would like to see changed about our school and why?) Chapter 12 - Notes - Begin education, look at the beginnings of education in America, the open classroom, and cooperative learning.
February 28, 2008	Assignment - Have students make a detailed list of 20 things they would change about their school.
February 29, 2008	Journal Entry #14 (Do you think that drugs is a major or minor problem in our schools today?) Class discussion - on what they would change about our school if they were in charge.
March 3, 2008	Notes - Discuss the benefits of cooperative learning, integrative curriculum, and a back to basics movement.
March 4, 2008	Class discussion - on what they would change about our school if they were in charge.
March 5, 2008	Video - Examine the issue of violence in schools. School violence Worksheet.
March 6, 2008	Journal Entry #15 (How do you think we can better protect our schools against violence?) Notes - Alturnatives to public education - voucher, magnet, charter, for-profit schools.
March 7, 2008	TEST - Chapter 12 Journal Check #3.
March 10, 2008	Notes - Chapter 13 politics and economics. Power and Authority, types of poitical systems. Perspectives on poitical power models.
March 11, 2008	Notes - Economic systems, monopolies and the role of government.
March 12, 2008	Notes - Socialism, the modern corporation, business sectors. Review for test.
March 13, 2008	TEST - Chapter 13
March 14, 2008	End of 9 Weeks.
March 17, 2008	SPRING BREAK
March 18, 2008	SPRING BREAK
March 19, 2008	SPRING BREAK
March 20, 2008	SPRING BREAK
March 21, 2008	SPRING BREAK
March 24, 2008	Journal Entry #16 (Are we where we need to be security wise as a result of 9/11?) Notes - Discuss terrorism, the structure, and development of these organizations.
March 25, 2008	Video - Terrorism: The New World War, a look at terrorist attacks from 1972 to today.
March 26, 2008	Journal Entry #17 (Do you believe that terrorism can ever be truly defeated?) Quiz - Terrorism: The New World War. Notes - Continue discussing the impact of these groups on society.
March 27, 2008	Notes - Examine terrorist tactics, terrorism at home, individual terrorists, weapons, anti-terrorist units.
March 28, 2008	Video - Examine the growth of terrorism as Osama Bin Laden goes from college student, to freedom fighter, to international terrorist.
March 31, 2008	Library or Laptops - Research a terrorist organization or a terrorist leader. Create a one page table on your subject choice.
April 1, 2008	Video - The War Against Al Qaeda.
April 2, 2008	TEST - TERRORISM.
April 3, 2008	Journal Entry #18 (Do you believe that sports plays more of a positive or a negative role in American society?) Notes - Chapters 14 and 15. The nature of sports, 7 characteristics of sports.
April 4, 2008	Video - Pressure to Play.
April 7, 2008	Notes - Symbolic interactionist, conflict, and functionalist views of sports. Religion - sacred and profane, how do sociologists study what they can't see?
April 8, 2008	Notes - Symbolic interactionist, conflict, and functionalist views of religion - religious organizations. Review for test.
April 9, 2008	TEST - Chapters 14 & 15.
April 10, 2008	Video - Examine Lucky Luciano and the origins of organized crime.
April 11, 2008	Journal Entry #19 (What is organized crime?) Quiz - Charles "Lucky" Luciano. Notes - Examine the mafia's setup, who brought it to America, how Luciano rose to power.
April 14, 2008	Journal Entry #20 (Why are mobsters viewed in a different light than ordinary criminals?) Video - Examine John Gotti and the current state of organized crime in New York.
April 15, 2008	Notes - The Commission, The Yakuza and Tryad and the organizational development of their groups.
April 16, 2008	Notes - Street gangs, the development of gangs and their current status. Journal Check #4.
April 17, 2008	TEST - Organized Crime.
April 18, 2008	Journal Entry #16 (Why is American society so fascinated by serial killers?) Introduction to the phenomenon of serial killers.
April 21, 2008	Video - 20th Century Serial Killers an overview.
April 22, 2008	Notes - Bundy, Dahmer, Lopez, Berkowitz, Boston Strangler, Cont. Introduction.
April 23, 2008	Video - Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer.
April 24, 2008	Journal Entry #17 (Why are some serial killers treated differently by American society?) Notes - An overview of serial killers Gacy, "Ken & Barbie", Hillside Stranglers, Manson, Zodiac, and Jack the Ripper.
April 25, 2008	Video - The Zodiac - 1964-78, early crimes, letters to the SFPD, Radian theory. Zodiac Quiz.
April 28, 2008	Video - Charles Manson and the Manson family.. Video Worksheet
April 29, 2008	Notes - Complete the section on Serial Killers.
April 30, 2008	Video - Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker) - a look at how he intrigued society after his capture.
May 1, 2008	Journal Entry #18 (What is criminal profiling, and what use does it serve?) Notes - Study the origin of Criminal Profiling, examine the first cases where it was used.
May 2, 2008	Video - Examine 5 different, current profilers, view an overview of each profiler on a case. Video Workheet.
May 5, 2008	Video - View 3 of the original cases where the founders of Criminal profiling used their new skill.
May 6, 2008	Quiz - Profilers, Notes - Examine the stages of profiling, review for test.
May 7, 2008	TEST - Serial Killers and Criminal Profilers.
May 8, 2008	Notes - Chapter 11 Families. Defining family, who inherits, who has authority, where do couples live. Marriage, divorce, and family violence.
May 9, 2008	Chapter 11 Vocab. Notes - Marriage, divorce, and family violence.
May 12, 2008	Notes - Changes in families, blended families, single-parent families, other types of families.
May 13, 2008	TEST - Chapter 11 Begin review for exam.
May 14, 2008	REVIEW FOR EXAM
May 15, 2008	FINAL EXAM
May 16, 2008	FINAL EXAM