Anthropology opportunity:

We invite you to join us and listen to our African students from Madison High School to share their personal struggles and barriers which they face. They will discuss the challenges of living in a White society, while simultaneously maintaining their own unique cultural identity.  Their stories of destitute & hope and the struggles of balancing completely different cultures from their home and school environments are some of the challenges they face on a daily basis.  This discussion will be facilitated by the Equity & Partnership Department with the support of our community partners.

When: Thursday, April 21, 2016

Time: 4:30-6:00 pm

Where: BESC Boardroom (The District Office near the Rose Quarter)

Learning Capitalist Culture ethnographic write up

Evaluate your ethnographic data, what do you see?  Using ideas and theory from Learning Capitalist Culture as your scaffold, analyze the data and its relationship to the text.  Make sure somewhere in the paper you:

• set the ethnographic present of both North Town High School and the time, location, context of your fieldwork
• address ethical issues
• define, as Foley uses them or your interpretation of, any key concepts, terms or aspects of culture
• analyze your data in a way that facilitates a clear connection to the themes, concepts, or theory found in Learning Capitalist Culture
• detailed, organized data
• textual references

Papers will be completed individually.  Normally in anthropology, we attribute ideas to anthropologists and the date at which they published their study, but have no need for direct quotes.  In this paper, please select relevant selections of the text in support of  your analysis. Please attach or share your compiled data with Ms. O’Neill, as well.

For those of you that missed class on Friday, we watched Fredrick Wiseman's High School. While you watch, take note of the systems, structures, teachers, administrators that shape race: class: and gender at Northeast High School.

We are also working on presentations for Tuesday, here are the groups.  Please read the appropriate section of the text (see link:  #1 being playfully mutually constructed m.o.g.s 114-118 though #5 hip teacher performances; the streetwise dude 128-132).

period 1
#1 Steven, Abbie, Lauren, Caleb
#2 Reegan, Nawaal, Maddy
#3 Kate, Ryan, Maya, Sydney
#4 Emmy, Anisha, Montse
#5 Aubrey, Matt, Margarita, Tristan

period 2
#1 Isabella, Vittoria, Maddy, Margaret, Luke
#2 Ricky, Leah, Sid, Lily, Marin
#3 Emma Root, Mason, Leanne, Eamon
#4 Carrie Ann, Elyse, David, Sophia
#5 Andrea, Emma G, Emma Rhodes, Darius

What you missed while you were at the ACT:

• first, finish reading chapter 3, pages 79-100
• read through the handout on power in society
• watch the first five episodes of People Like Us: Social Class in America 

We will finish watching the film, and discuss the remainder of chapter 3, on Thursday

What your IAs should look like: format

Social and Cultural Anthropology Internal Assessment information here.

Agenda for the day, Thursday March 3:

• discuss talk back papers
• return work with commentary
• start chapter 3 pp. 60-79 discussion questions here