Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Course:
Essie Washington
Sociology
Dates:
Feb. 23-27/15
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: Identify and describe the two major components of social structure.
TEKS/AP/Standards:
1. Describe models of primary, secondary, formal, informal, and reference groups
and e-communities.
2. Analyze groups in terms of membership roles, status, values, mores, role conflicts,
and methods of resolution.
Monday
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Warm: Up: What are the different roles that you play? List the expectations that go along
with those roles. How are the different roles connected?
Activities:
1. Read pages 66-68
2. Make a diagram of your roles.
3. What status do you have? Add you statuses to your diagram. Do you have mores or
statuses? Why?
4. Create a picture montage shaped in the form of your master status” symbol.
5. What is your status set?
6. What is your master status set? How do you know this?
7. Social structure is the underlying pattern of social relationships. It is based on various
roles and statuses. These roles and statuses can be multiple and form a complex web
of human interaction.
8. Reap pages 70-72
9. Complete Vocabulary words on page 68.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
Graphic organizer
What do I need to be successful?
Materials:
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: Analyze how these two components of social structure affect human
interaction.
3. TEKS/AP/Standards: Describe models of primary, secondary, formal, informal, and
reference groups and e-communities.
4. Analyze groups in terms of membership roles, status, values, mores, role conflicts,
and methods of resolution.
Tuesday
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Warm-Up: When do you have role strain and role conflict? Why?
Activities:
1. Write a paragraph about your most embarrassing moments.
2. Read the “George Eliot quote. Go over George Eliot’s story. Do you believe the quote
for yourself or other teens? Do you believe it is true for someone in their 30’s, 40’s,
50’s, 60’s, and 70’s?
3. Work with partner to create visual representations of the terms in sections one and
two.
4. Have you ever felt that you did not come off as well as you would have like in an
emotional situation.
5. Do role play.
6. Role’s definition according to the 3 perspectives:
Functionalist: social integration is promoted culturally defined rights and obligations
honored by group members.
Conflict: roles are there in part to empower and subjugate others.
Symbolic interactions: the role as based on symbolic meaning of these roles.
7. Read pages 73-77.
8. Complete vocabulary. On page 72.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
What do I need to be successful?
Materials:
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
What are we learning?
Daily Objective:
1. Identify the most common types of social interaction.
2. Distinguish between types of interactions that stabilize social structure and those that
can disrupt it.
Wed/Thur
TEKS/AP/Standards:
1. Describe models of primary, secondary, formal, informal, and reference groups
and e-communities.
2. Analyze groups in terms of membership roles, status, values, mores, role conflicts,
and methods of resolution.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Warm-Up: Complete worksheet on mean girls
View Film Mean Girls on social structure, roles , statuses, primary and secondary groups and
their social interactions.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
Worksheet.
Checks for Understanding:
What do I need to be successful?
Materials:
Friday
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
What are we learning?
Daily Objective:
1. Explain and describe the types of societies that exist in the world today.
2. Explain the roles individual play in these models of group systems.
3. TEKS/AP/Standards Describe models of primary, secondary, formal, informal, and
reference groups and e-communities.
4. Analyze groups in terms of membership roles, status, values, mores, role conflicts,
and methods of resolution.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Warm-Up: Why are hunting and gatherings societies small?
Activities:
1. Create charts about the types of societies. Use the following areas of comparison:
Tools, importance of animals, leisure time, government, living conditions.
2. It is predicted that hunting and gathering societies will be a thing of the past in the
next 50 years.
3. Act out scenes getting a job according to the society assigned.
4. Work on chapter review.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Checks for Understanding
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Materials:
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