Warm-up:
Place your Vocabulary Review and Notes on your desk, along with a writing utensil.
Objective:
SWBAT demonstrate an understanding of social stratification, social class, poverty, and social mobility.
Warm-up:Place your Vocabulary Review and Notes on your desk, along with a writing utensil. Objective:SWBAT demonstrate an understanding of social stratification, social class, poverty, and social mobility.
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Warm-up:You have 10 minutes to complete the Advertising Social Mobility Questions. What is social mobility? Mach the types of social mobility with the examples (vertical, horizontal, intergenerational): a. a restaurant waiter becomes a taxi driver b. an auto worker becomes a manager c. the daughter of a hairdresser becomes a college professor How do you think the cultural values associated with a caste and an open-class system differently affect economic behavior? Why is the United States not a completely open-class system? Objective:SWBAT discuss social stratification, social class, poverty, and social mobility. Group Work: On a separate sheet of paper answer all of the questions located on the final sheet of your review packet.
Warm-up:How difficult was it to stay within the poverty level income for a family of four ($23,550)? What types of jobs do you think pay at, or just above, the poverty level? Did you like the home you found? The neighborhood? The mode of transportation? Were the schools good? How healthy do you think you and your children will be? Analyze the impact of all of the above on social mobility. Objective:SWBAT analyze the impact of advertising on the American Dream of upward social mobility.
Warm-up:What are the different social classes? Name attributes associated with each class. Objective:SWBAT recognize the struggle of poverty by preparing a budget according to the 2013 poverty level.
Warm-up:Explain the difference between absolute and relative poverty. Which of the following is not one of the major categories of poor people in the United States? a. children under 18 b. able bodied men who refuse to work c. elderly people d. people with disabilities e. people who live alone or with non-relatives Analyze how government welfare programs affect the poor's decision to work. Objective:SWBAT discuss social mobility in the United States. In Media (Periods 3 and 4) or E101 (Period 7)
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Quote of the Day:“To help yourself, help others. Whatever good you do travels a circle and returns to you many times over- but remember, life isn't about what you get, it's about what you become.”
Dennis Gaskill Word of the Day:cognitive/adjective
definition: 1. Relating to the process of acquiring knowledge by the use of reasoning, intuition, or perception. 2. Having a basis in or reducible to empirical factual knowledge. “A Cognitive model for success.” Archives
May 2014
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