January 28, 2016

Thursday January 28, 2016

Circle: How important are your friends?  How did you choose them?

Learning Target: Students will understand human development from pre-natal to adulthood.

Homework: Homework will be checked off as completed or not done.

Temperament Survey Activity: At your table share what you learned about your temperament.  Have you 

changed since you were an infant?  What do you believe has changed the most about your temperament since 

you were 2-3?

Activity: At your table, discuss what you think will be the hardest part about being a parent?  What are your 

biggest concerns?  What do you think you would do different from your parents, parenting style(please consider 

all your siblings when formulating your answer)? 

Activity: Go to Amazon.com and search "parenting".  Scroll through and see if you notice anything.

Activity: Do Parents Matter?  Which side do you fall on?  Does your peer group play a bigger role or is it 

your parents nurturing that plays a bigger role?

The Developing Child

Homework:  Continue to read and SQ3R unit 9.  

January 26, 2016

Tuesday January 26, 2016

Circle: If you were to discover one of  your closest friends was a heroin dealer, what would you do?

Learning Target: Students will understand human development from pre-natal to adulthood.

Homework: Homework will be checked off as completed or not done.

Score Homework

True or False:

Developmental landmarks

Temperament Survey

The Developing Child

Homework:  Continue to read and SQ3R unit 9.  Read and write a response to the following article: Do Parents Matter? You should be clear whether you agree or disagree as well as what are the most convincing arguments the author makes.  This should be approximately one page.

January 22, 2016

Friday January 22, 2016

Circle: One piece of advice either you wished you got on the first day of freshman year or a piece of advice you would give to incoming freshmen.  Follow-up, do you think you would have listened?

Test: Unit 7b

Learning Target: Students will understand human development from pre-natal to adulthood.

True or False:

Developmental landmarks

Temperament Survey

Homework: Read and SQ3R unit 9.  Answer free-response question at end of Unit 9.  This will be passed in on Tuesday at the beginning of class.  Please hand-write the response.

January 20, 2016

Wednesday January 20, 2016

Learning Target: Students will understand Cognition, in other words, all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communication.

Circle: What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?

True or False: 23-1

Crash Course: Cognition

Crash Course: Language

Collect Homework:

Homework: Study for 7b Unit test using SQ3R.  Please use all available resources.

Quizlet: Cognition and Language

January 15, 2016

Friday January 15, 2016

Circle: Your house, containing everything you own catches fire.  After making sure all pets and people are safe you have time to grab one last thing.  What would it be?

Learning Target: Students will understand Cognition, in other words, all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communication.

Activity: True and False 23-1

Activity: Cognitive Complexity

Activity: Tower of Hanoi Problem

Activity: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 23-4

Activity: Simple Language Device 23-8

Activity: Doublespeak 23-9



Homework: SQ3R Unit 7b and complete Free-response at end of Unit.  This will be scored for a grade.

January 13, 2016

Wednesday January 13, 2016

Learning Target: Students will understand Cognition, in other words, all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communication.

Circle: What is your favorite smell and why?

Predicting the future:???

Activity: Developing and writing Free-Response Questions

Homework: Please continue to review and SQ3R Unit 7b

January 11, 2016

Monday January 11, 2016

Circle: One thing you use to be passionate about?

Test: Unit 8b

The BRAIN: Episode 1

Homework: Read and SQ3R Unit 7b