Agenda for 11/30

1. Finish Oxycontin Express

4. Keynote - Drug Use in America - view slides 12-16 

HW - Assignment #14

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?

3. How could state law makers (politicians) in Florida, make changes to Florida's laws to reduce the prescription drug crisis? What could doctors do differently? What could drug companies do differently?

3. Discuss the responsibility of drug companies, state law makers (politicians), and doctors share in this crisis? How much of the blame do you think they share with the user who decides the take the drug?

4. Why do you think that the user is the only one who feels legal consequences (arrest and imprisonment) for the problem? Why not doctors or drug companies? Don't they produce, sell and profit from the drug much more than a street level dealer?

5. Choose three graphs (from slides 1-16) 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.

Agenda for 11/29

1. Again...

2. Black Friday

3. Finish Oxycontin Express

4. Keynote - Drug Use in America - (slides 1-10) 

HW - Assignment #14

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 (from slides 1-16) 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.

Agenda for 11/24

1. Oxycontin Express - (watch to 15:20)

2. Keynote - Drug Use in America - (slides 1-10) 


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!

Agenda for 11/23

1. Oxycontin Express - (watch to 15:20)

2. Keynote - Drug Use in America - (slides 1-10)
HW - Enjoy Thanksgiving Break!

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!

Agenda for 11/20

1. Syrian Refugees?

2. How do our opinions match up against the majority of Americans from this Pew poll on drug use in America.  
 
3. Keynote - Drug Use in America - (slides 1-10)

HW - None

Agenda for 11/18

1. Sociology Mid-term! Have fun.

Agenda for 11/16/15

1. 60 Minutes - The Paris Attacks

2. Anyone remember 7/18/15? Or 11/12/15?

 

3.  Review for test

Terms/Concepts that you NEED to know:

A. Sociological Imagination, Categories and Labels - click here for the blog post that can help you to answer many of these questions

• Strange in the familiar - explain the concept and provide and example
• General in the particular - explain the concept and provide and example
• Beneath the waterline of visibility - explain the concept and provide and example
• "This is Water" -  explain the main point of the video and how it connects to the "sociological imagination." 
• How did the rat experiment explain the power of expectations/categories?
• Social labels - what label did you investigate and what did you learn about the social implications (positive and negative effects) of being given that label?

B. Culture - be able to explain and give an example of each term below

• material culture
• non-material culture 
• ethnocentrism 
• Cultural Relativism

C. Prussian Blue and Socialization 

• Describe the changes in the Prussian Blue girls from childhood to adulthood. What were the major influences in their feelings of hate?
• Define/explain the sociological concept of socialization. 
  
• Agents of Socialization - identify and describe four "agents of socialization
• Describe what happens in situations when a person receives no socialization (like Danielle).
• How did your children's book teach kids about your topic?

 

4. Drug use in America...how it's different from other countries.

5. Keynote - Drug Use in America