Readings: Week 5 – 9

NO CLASS 9/29: Monday Schedule
 
Week 5: Social class or culture shapes your chances more?
Date DUE
VIDEO:  Watch the video on parenting below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sq1ia-81r4 then upload answers to these questions:

1.      Describe middle class parenting.

2.      Describe working class parenting.

3.      What do kids learn from the parenting style of their middle-class parents?

4.      What do kids learn from the parenting style of their working-class parents?

5.      Which type of theory does Lareau’s book best fit: functional or conflict theory?

Tues.,10/6

 

READING:

Group #1

Click to read this article by A. Lareau from our library or go to BB under assignments. Lareau on parenting, race and class  Read closely and upload a one-page summary of all the main points plus your critique.

Group #2

Click to read this article from our library or go to BB under assignments. Chin_and_ Summer_on students, and class. Read closely and upload a one-page summary of all the main points plus your critique.

Friday, 10/9
Week 6: History & data on the Black “achievement gap”
Date DUE
VIDEO:  Watch this video and upload your summary.

A tale of two schools and possibilities

Tues. 10/13
READING:

Group #1

Click to read this article from our library or go to BB under assignments. Racial & Ethnic Inequality in Educational Outcomes

Education, RACE_&_Inequality_Report_2018   Read closely and upload a one-page summary of all the main points plus your critique under Assignments.

Group #2

Click to read this article on the history of civil rights movement. Read closely and upload a one-page summary of all the main points plus your critique.

Friday 10/16
Week 7: Theory of racial difference
Due Date
VIDEO:  Watch the video on integrating NYC  Integrate_NYC  and upload your summary. Tues, 10/20
READING:

Group #1

Click to read this article from our library or go to BB under assignments. Loud Girls by I. Fordham.  Read closely and upload a one-page summary of all the main points plus your critique under Assignments.

Group #2

Click to read this article from our library or go to BB under assignments. Student_Effort_Optimisim_Difference_Between_Black_and_White_Students.  Read closely and upload a one-page summary of all the main points plus your critique.

Friday 10/23

 

Week 8: Minority Language Communities
Due Date
VIDEO:  Watch the video on undocumented people and upload your summary by Tuesday.

Actions are Illegal Never people

Tues, 10/27
READING:

Group #1

Click to read this article from our library or go to BB under assignments

Keep_those_kids_out

Group #2

Read & summarize homework essay Group #50 in textbook by Portes.

Friday 10/30

 

Week 9: Midterm Test
Due Date
Go to Assignments on Blackboard to take Midterm Test by end of day Friday. It is a timed test you can only take once so study the review sheet, lectures, and your homework before you start the test. Friday 11/6