Psychology:
Students will be able to:
~identify the difference in perception between individuals
~explain the significance of sensation & perception on how individuals process and interpret information
Monday:
Lecture & Discussion
Tuesday-Thursday: film: At First Sight
Friday: Essay Test

Introduction to Journalism:
Students will be able to:
~identify and discuss the top news stories of 2012
~identify the elements of news
~identify the basics of news and news/feature writing
Monday:
~discussion of top news stories of 2012
Tuesday:
~review of rubrics for news & news/feature writing
~read LNJ & discuss
Wednesday:
~test elements of news
~journalism vs. English writing lecture & discussion
Thursday:
~read LNJ
~complete lecture & discussion of journalism vs. English writing
Friday:
~application writing assignment: find a news story and write about it

This week in and out of the classroom has been challenging. Psychology students took a look inside the black box of the brain and also explored the latest research on how the brain works. We capped off our study with a look at the uniqueness of the teen brain.
Many students were out of pocket with play practices, basketball tournaments and illness. Somehow we persevered to finish the unit.

Journalism students took a look at the history of early movie making and even watched about half of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. Class discussion covered the socio-political background of movies and how they reflected or deflected the culture of the period they were made in.

The Gauger staff is busy putting out a 20 page issue to end the semester. The yearbook staff is frantically working on their first deadlines of the year.

Dual Credit College History students will be taking their final exam on Thursday of next week.

Psychology:
Sensation & Perception
Students will be able to:
~define perception as the way we interpret sensations and organize them into meaningful experiences
~describe the field of study known as psychophysics
~define and discuss threshold, Weber’s Law and signal detection
~describe the nature and functioning of the sense organs
~identify the skin and body senses and explain how they work
~outline the principles involved in perception
~describe how we learn to perceive and what illusions are
Monday:
Lecture & discussion over Chpt. 8 Section 1 Sensation
Tuesday:
Lecture & discussion Chpt. 8 Section 2 The Senses & Section 3 Perception
Wednesday:
Dr. Philip Zimbardo film: Sensation & Perception
Thursday & Friday: At First Sight

Introduction to Journalism:
Students will be able to:
~identify the roots of cinematography in photography
~identify the inventions and innovations that made movies possible
~create a timeline of the rise of the motion picture industry from 1902 to the emergence of the Studio System; the arrival of sound; depression-era Hollywood; Wartime Hollywood; Decline of the Studio System; labor unrest in Hollywood; anti-communism in Hollywood; the Foreign Market; courting the Youth Market; the decline of film censorship; civil rights & Hollywood; impact of television on the movie industry; & the contemporary Motion Picture Industry
Monday:
Lecture & discussion of historical background to create Hollywood
Tuesday:
Conclude the above
Wednesday:
Create a outline of important points from history handout
Thursday & Friday:
film clips across the various periods of Hollywood history