Reflections:
What a great week! The Gauger staff led by Donald Griffin is busy working on the homecoming Gauger. It will be our second broadsheet production. The Roughneck yearbook staff led by Austin Jordan has been busy working on contest entries, planning spreads and choosing cover materials and design approaches. National graphic design consultant Paul Ender visited with Austin and some staff members going over their plans. Paul was ecstatic with the design plan and said he had NEVER seen it done before (& he is a NATIONAL judge and consultant)!
The psychology class has had their nose to the grindstone with lecture and discussion of the contemporary approaches to psychology. A broad overview of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, sociocultural psychology, the humanist approach and more have been outlined and discussed.
J1, God Bless them is struggling through lessons on writing leads and are hard at work on writing an interview.
In between all of the above, we took the time in all classes to read and discuss the Nobel prize in physics and the breakthroughs taking place in Quantum Physics AND we read and discussed the contributions of the 13-year-old Pakistani female blogger who was shot by the Taliban this week. Her crime? Advocacy for the education of girls. And so it goes, in the room in the corner at the back of the school.
Psychology:
Students will be able to:
~identify & explain the variety of experimental research methods that are used in the field and give examples of each orally and in writing
~explain the process of the scientific method
~explain how probability works, the importance of sample size and random sampling
Monday:
film: Phillip Zimbardo–Research methods in psychology
Tuesday: probability experiment and application of knowledge in producing a visual representation (bell curve, scatter graph, bar graph etc.) of results
Wednesday: M&M sample size & Random Sampling experiment and results
Thursday: Lecture & discussion on Sigmund Freud, Father of Psychoanalysis
Friday: A&E Biography film on Freud
Introduction to Journalism
Students will demonstrate the ability to:
~write a journalistically sound lead and review as if for publication
~trace and explain the role of newspapers in the Civil War, post-war period of Westward Expansion & Yellow Journalism
Monday & Tuesday:
One-on-one evaluation of student leads and reviews
Read LNJ
Wednesday & Thursday:
Lecture & Discussion on pre-Civil War role through period of late 19th century yellow journalism & muckraking
Friday:
A&E Bio film: Joseph Pulitzer