Sociological Inquiry: The Outsiders and Popular Media
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Debates
Big Questions: What are some important social issues we face today? What are the different views on these issues? What are the solutions to solving the problems we face? What are the challenges to solving these issues?
Assessments:
1. Read and Analyze the Outsiders (main idea, connections, inferences, literary devices, novel text form) by answering chapter questions and participating in literature circles
2. Find a media text on an issue in society, generate discussion questions and write a statement on its importance and the effectiveness of the questions created (research, questioning, evaluation, POV, main idea)
3. Read and analyze a popular media account of an issue in society
4. Write an essay on a theme found in the Outsiders
5. Write a compare and contrast essay of different views on an issue found in the media
6. Debate a social issue
7. Create a propaganda poster/PSA on a social issue
8. Write an analysis of the poster/PSA
Assessments:
1. Read and Analyze the Outsiders (main idea, connections, inferences, literary devices, novel text form) by answering chapter questions and participating in literature circles
2. Find a media text on an issue in society, generate discussion questions and write a statement on its importance and the effectiveness of the questions created (research, questioning, evaluation, POV, main idea)
3. Read and analyze a popular media account of an issue in society
4. Write an essay on a theme found in the Outsiders
5. Write a compare and contrast essay of different views on an issue found in the media
6. Debate a social issue
7. Create a propaganda poster/PSA on a social issue
8. Write an analysis of the poster/PSA
2. Debates
Debate Resources
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3. Reading Response
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4. Critical Essays on Society
The Outsiders
Outsider Audiobook
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Posters
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EXAMPLE POSTER STYLES:
http://www.posterconnection.com/history.shtml
https://www.pinterest.com/chrisdymond/poster-styles/
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=poster%20styles&rs=typed&term_meta%5B%5D=poster%7Ctyped&term_meta%5B%5D=styles%7Ctyped
http://www.posterconnection.com/history.shtml
https://www.pinterest.com/chrisdymond/poster-styles/
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=poster%20styles&rs=typed&term_meta%5B%5D=poster%7Ctyped&term_meta%5B%5D=styles%7Ctyped