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Week of 1st June 2010
Tue 6/1 and Wed 6/2 : Compromise and Relationships
Thur: 6/3 Pregnancy & Contraception Quiz. Intor to STD/STI Project
Friday 6/4: STD/STI Group Presentation Assignments

Week of 17th May 2010

CES:  Sex Education Unit

Tue 5/18 
Personal Health; Abstinence –Only: Does it Work?
Reading & Questions

Wed 5/19  
Talk To Your Parents About Sex? Yeah, Right
Reading & Questions

Thur  5/20
Sexual Signals 
Reading & Questions

Fri 5/21 
The Myth of Rampant Teenage Promiscuity
Reading & Questions

Week of 10th May 2010

All 9th grade students in attendance received progress reports on 5/5
 
Major Project: Talk SHow!  Student Skits on Adolescent Issues
5/6 Talk Show! Prep Sheet one due  30 pts.
5/7 Talk Show! Prep Sheet two due  25 pts.
5/8 Talk Show! Prep Three  Due 10 pts.

5/10 Film SKits -  HW -  Puberty: A Time for a Change Reading & Questions.
 Due Tuesday 5/11
5/11 Film Skits - No Hw   

5/12 HW - Article/Questions: Teen Pregnancy Due 5/13

Week of 26th April 2010

MONDAY: Gender Unit - Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn't Clear
                                     Due: Monday @ the End of Class

TUESDAY:  STAR Testing then Habits of MInd Workshop with Dwayne Byndloss
WEDNESDAY: STAR Testing no CES
THURSDAY:  STAR Testing for 9th Graders in Science.  All others do not
arrive until afternoon.  
                      View Documentary: The Brandon Teena Story - Response
Questions due Friday
FRIDAY:  No STAR Testing for 9th Grade.  CPA Career Day Friday Afternoon.

Week of 8th March 2010

HW: Mon 3/8 Questionarie on Death & Dying
                      Due: Tue 3/9
       Wed: Stages of Grief Notes 
                     Due: Thur:3/10
      Thurs: Field Trip to Alvin Aliey @ Zellerbach Hall

Tue 3/2  Developmental Psych:  Raising Victor Vargas Responses Due
Wed 3/3        Physiological Responses to STRESS notes
Thur 3/4       Defense Mechanism Role Play - skits must be ready to
perform by Fri 3/5

Week of 14 Feb 2010

Questing Shield Due Wed 2/17 
HW for Thur 2/18 TBA  - depending on progress this week.

Week of 8 Feb 2010

Tuesday 2/9  Erikson Stages/Antwone Fischer notes due.
Tuesday   2/9 Conduct  Parent Interview. Write up of responses due
Thursday 2/11
Wednesday - begin "Identity Shield" assignment.  Due Tuesday 2/16

Week of 2/2 to 2/5
Tue: 1st day of New Semester, No Homework
Wed: No HW
Thurs:  Erikson Statges of psychosocial development through Antwone Fisher. 
Viewing Guide Notes Part 1- Due Thursday
Fri: Erikson Statges of psychosocial development through Antwone Fisher. 
Viewing Guide Notes Part 2 - Due Friday
Mon: No HW

Daily Journal entries and Notes/Quotes from School Colors - prep for
Socratic SeminarFriday.
Wednesday 11/18  Reading: In a World of Racial Diversity, What is White? 
Respond to attached questions.  Due: Thursday 11/19

Monday 11/9  Johnathan Kozol Reading "Homeless" with questions Due Tuesday
Tuesday 11/10 Giving Credit Where Debt is Due & I'm No Credit to Their
Industry w/ Questions due Thursday.
Wednesday: No School

Monday: 1st day of New Quarter!    Culture Unit: "American" Culture

Tuesday 11/3 Cultural Response to Oppression Artifact Analysis Essay Due

Wednesday 11/4  Classwork - Values Beyond Price Definitions/ Pre-Reading
Vocabulary 
                               Homework:  Values Beyond Price Questions 1-
4

Thursday 11/5    Homework: Values Beyond Price Questions 5 - 8 

Friday 11/6 No School For Students

October 12th -16th

Monday: No school for students

Tuesday: Collect Mi Familia Response Questions

 Introduce U.S. Demographic informatio: Immigration and U.S. Student
population makeup and trends

 Through interactive slide lecture. Student interpret graphic information
and collect data.  

 HW: Students complete essay response question after analyzing data.

Wednesday: No School for Freshmen

Thursday:  Use 4 questions from "The Blues" reading to analyze Field
Hollers reading.  

Friday:  Continue reading the excerpt on Lynchings.  Find ten words or
phrases that you could incorporate into a poetic response.  Decide what
type of poetic response you might want to create.  Bring to class on
Monday.

HW: Work on You Poem

Work week of 28th September 2009
Work week of 20th September 2009