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Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology. The student is expected to:

(A) create a product on a contemporary psychology-related issue or topic using critical methods of inquiry;

(B) draw and evaluate conclusions from qualitative information;

(C) apply evaluation rules to quantitative information; and

(D) analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions.

Lesson Plan for the week of march 4th

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This week we will study Deviance and Social Control. There will be a research paper over the question of if violence on television and games had an impact on violence in society. Students will learn how to conduct research thru the Texshare program, formulate thesis’s, and support the thesis with factual information. this project will extend beyond Spring Break.

Lesson Plan 11-26 to 12-7

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We will be using a made for TV mini series Under the Dome to psychologically analyze the decision and actions of the key characters. The following psychological factors will be tracked and discussed for each of the  characters. Motivations, Dreams and Perceptions, Emotional development, and Reactions to stress. Students will also identify and discuss Conflict and cooperation patterns and how these patterns relate to the above psychological factor. Student will identify their own built in prejudices in how they form opinions of the characters in the first few moments of the program and then discuss how and why their initial impressions change or solidify over time.