Agenda for 11/24

1. Mr. Parise's Turkey Spectacular

1. Get a turkey (allow 1-2 days for thawing if frozen).

2. Buy a large roasting bag.

3. Spread a liberal amount of softened butter, salt and pepper between the turkey's skin and breast meat.

4. Place a chopped onion, carrots, celery, a sliced apple or orange, and roasting herbs (rosemary, oregano, thyme, etc.) inside the cavity of the bird.

5. Liberally season the outside of the bird with salt and pepper.

6. Place your turkey in the roasting bag (follow directions on box)

7. Place a small amount of water or vegetable stock in the bag along with any extra veggies.

8. Place turkey in your roasting pan UPSIDE DOWN (breast meat down)

9. Tie off bag and make a few slits in the top of the bag (follow directions on bag)

10. Cook until internal meat temp. is at least 165 degrees. Look online for approximate cooking time for the size of your turkey. No basting necessary. Keep oven closed. The more you open it, the longer it will take, and the drier the meat will be.

11. Take turkey out of oven. Flip right side up. Carve, make your gravy, and enjoy!

2. "The House I Live In"

Agenda for 11/20

1. Glamour Magazine names transgender Orono student as one of its 50 Inspiring Women for 2014.

2. Portugal's Drug Decriminalization program

3. Are drugs a health or criminal issue?

• Needle exchange programs
• comment on this padlet
• Methadone clinics
• comment on this padlet
• Drug "Safe House"
• comment on this padlet

4. Incarceration for Drugs - America has 5% of the world's population, 25% of it's prisoners.

5. Despite the arrests - 76.9 percent of drug offenders are rearrested for another drug offense.

6. How effective has America's "War on Drugs" been?

7. Who has an incentive to continue these drug war policies?

8. Why do politicians support these policies?

9. Next on Sociology - "The House I Live In"

HW - Assignment 13

Agenda for 11/19 - Gold

1. Glamour Magazine names transgender Orono student as one of its 50 Inspiring Women for 2014.

2. Portugal's Drug Decriminalization program

3. Are drugs a health or criminal issue?

• Needle exchange programs
• comment on this padlet
• Methadone clinics
• comment on this padlet
• Drug "Safe House"
• comment on this padlet

4. Incarceration for Drugs - America has 5% of the world's population, 25% of it's prisoners.

5. Despite the arrests - 76.9 percent of drug offenders are rearrested for another drug offense.

6. How effective has America's "War on Drugs" been?

7. Who has an incentive to continue these drug war policies?

8. Why do politicians support these policies?

9. Next on Sociology - "The House I Live In"

(US Drug Prisoners) "The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities. There are currently more than 2 million people in American prisons or jails. Approximately one-quarter of those people held in U.S. prisons or jails have been convicted of a drug offense. The United States incarcerates more people for drug offenses than any other country. With an estimated 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse or dependence, the growth of the prison population continues to be driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses. - See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.ArVLEO8P.dpuf

(US Drug Prisoners) "The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities. There are currently more than 2 million people in American prisons or jails. Approximately one-quarter of those people held in U.S. prisons or jails have been convicted of a drug offense. The United States incarcerates more people for drug offenses than any other country. With an estimated 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse or dependence, the growth of the prison population continues to be driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses."

Source: 

Justice Policy Institute, "Substance Abuse Treatment and Public Safety," (Washington, DC: January 2008), p. 1.
http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08_01_REP_DrugTx_AC-PS.pdf

(Estimated Drug Use by Prisoners in 2004) "17% of State and 18% of Federal prisoners committed their crime to obtain money for drugs."

- See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.ArVLEO8P.dpu

(US Drug Prisoners) "The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities. There are currently more than 2 million people in American prisons or jails. Approximately one-quarter of those people held in U.S. prisons or jails have been convicted of a drug offense. The United States incarcerates more people for drug offenses than any other country. With an estimated 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse or dependence, the growth of the prison population continues to be driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses."

Source: 

Justice Policy Institute, "Substance Abuse Treatment and Public Safety," (Washington, DC: January 2008), p. 1.
http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08_01_REP_DrugTx_AC-PS.pdf

(Estimated Drug Use by Prisoners in 2004) "17% of State and 18% of Federal prisoners committed their crime to obtain money for drugs."

Source: 

Mumola, Christopher J., and Karberg, Jennifer C., "Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004," (Washington, DC: US Dept. of Justice, Oct. 2006) (NCJ213530), p. 1.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dudsfp04.pdf

- See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.ArVLEO8P.dpuf

(US Drug Prisoners) "The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities. There are currently more than 2 million people in American prisons or jails. Approximately one-quarter of those people held in U.S. prisons or jails have been convicted of a drug offense. The United States incarcerates more people for drug offenses than any other country. With an estimated 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse or dependence, the growth of the prison population continues to be driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses."

Source: 

Justice Policy Institute, "Substance Abuse Treatment and Public Safety," (Washington, DC: January 2008), p. 1.
http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08_01_REP_DrugTx_AC-PS.pdf

(Estimated Drug Use by Prisoners in 2004) "17% of State and 18% of Federal prisoners committed their crime to obtain money for drugs."

Source: 

Mumola, Christopher J., and Karberg, Jennifer C., "Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004," (Washington, DC: US Dept. of Justice, Oct. 2006) (NCJ213530), p. 1.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dudsfp04.pdf

- See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.ArVLEO8P.dpuf

Agenda for 11/18

1. So, do laws the drug test welfare recipients actually work?

2. What about drug testing the politicians? How did Trey Radel vote on a proposed federal law requiring welfare recipients to get drug tests?

3. Finish Drugs in America Keynote

Agenda for 11/17

1. Finish Botany of Desire clip.

2. State Marijuana laws

3. Medical Marijuana - www.procon.org

• What are your thoughts on this issue?
• Use the link above to find at least three arguments to support your POV.
• Upload your arguments to the ebackpack Assignment #14

4. Discuss Portugal's decision to decriminalize drugs

Agenda for 11/14 - Maroon

1. What do you think about the Narcan debate?

2. Drug Test Activity (ebackpack - Assignment #11)

3. What about drug testing for welfare recipients?

4. So who gets government benefits? Why just test the poor?

5. So, do these laws actually work?

6. What about drug testing the politicians? How did Trey Radel vote on a proposed federal law requiring welfare recipients to get drug tests?

Agenda for 11/13

1. More on laws that require drug testing for welfare recipients. What about drug testing the politicians? How did Trey Radel vote on a proposed federal law requiring welfare recipients to get drug tests?

2. In-class Quiz

• Read this article about the debate surrounding drug testing for welfare recipients in Maine.
• What is your POV on this issue?
• Discuss and explain your opinion in a substantial paragraph. Be sure to provide specific reasons for your opinions.

 3. Finish "Drugs in America - Keynote"

4. Clip from Botany of Desire

Agenda for 11/13

1. If not already complete, you should work on:

• Assignment #9 - Gender Unit Assessment
• Assignment #10 - Drug Use in America

2. If you have already completed both of the those assignments, playing games on your iPad or browsing the web is NOT AN OPTION. But you do have these two options:

• A. EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT: Watch this documentary called "Locked UP: Prison State" on prisons and mass incarceration in America and it's effect on our country. After watching, write a 1 page reflection sharing your thoughts on documentary. Submit your response to the assignment on eBakcpack called "Extra Credit - Prison Documentary Assignment". Due Friday 11/14.
• B. Work on an assignment for another class (you must acutally be doing work for another class.

 3. I have instructed the sub to feel free to use the "Phone Yard" if necessary and to report to me any student who's phone spent time there.

Agenda for 11/7

1. Finish Oxycontin Express

• So what happens to Todd?

2. Continue Drug Use in America Keynote

HW

Assignment #10 - Due: 11/12 (submit your answers to the questions below to the eBackpack assignment)

Answer the following questions in a paragraph each:

1. For you, what was the most surprising, shocking, saddening, or maddening (or all of the above) about what you saw on The Oxycontin Express? Are you surprised at the extent of prescription pain killer abuse in America? 

2. What do you think some of the reasons for this prescription drug crisis are beyond the personal choice to take the drug? Do you think major drug companies and doctors share any of the blame?

3. Choose three graphs about drug use in the United States from the Drugs in America - Keynote that you find the most interesting and do the following:

•  Explain why each of those graphs are interesting to you. 
• Show the three graphs to a family member or friend not in sociology class. Describe their response to each.
• Analyze why you think they responded the way they did. 

4. For you, what was the most surprising, shocking, saddening, or maddening (or all of the above) about Maine's current heroin boom? (see: Maine's Heroin Crisis - video, and Maine's Heroin Crisis - article) 

5. What do you think about the proposal to make Narcan (the drug that can prevent a fatal heroin overdose) more accessible to first responders and addicts? Do you agree or disagree with Gov. Lepage's opposition to that bill? (see: The political debate over a new way to save lives from Heroin overdoses?)

1. Finish Oxycontin Express

• So what happens to Todd?

2. Continue Drug Use in America Keynote

HW

Assignment #10 - Due: 11/10 (submit your answers to the questions below to the eBackpack assignment)

Answer the following questions in a paragraph each:

1. For you, what was the most surprising, shocking, saddening, or maddening (or all of the above) about what you saw on The Oxycontin Express? Are you surprised at the extent of prescription pain killer abuse in America? 

2. What do you think some of the reasons for this prescription drug crisis are beyond the personal choice to take the drug? Do you think major drug companies and doctors share any of the blame?

3. Choose three graphs about drug use in the United States from the Drugs in America - Keynote that you find the most interesting and do the following:

•  Explain why each of those graphs are interesting to you. 
• Show the three graphs to a family member or friend not in sociology class. Describe their response to each.
• Analyze why you think they responded the way they did. 

4. For you, what was the most surprising, shocking, saddening, or maddening (or all of the above) about Maine's current heroin boom? (see: Maine's Heroin Crisis - video, and Maine's Heroin Crisis - article) 

5. What do you think about the proposal to make Narcan (the drug that can prevent a fatal heroin overdose) more accessible to first responders and addicts? Do you agree or disagree with Gov. Lepage's opposition to that bill? (see: The political debate over a new way to save lives from Heroin overdoses?)

 

Agenda for 11/5

1. Gender Unit Assessments Due - submit (however it's best to do so)

2. Drug Use in America

• Intro Keynote
• Oxycontin Express
• So what happens to Todd?

HW - none

Agenda for 11/4 - Gold

1. Gender Unit Assessments Due - submit (however it's best to do so)

2. Drug Use in America

• Intro Keynote
• Oxycontin Express
• So what happens to Todd?

HW - none