Psychology
What is the purpose of sleep & dreams? Do dreams mean anything?
What are the different psychological disorders, and how can they be treated?
What makes us who we are? Do our personalities change over time or basically stay the same?
What is the purpose of sleep & dreams? Do dreams mean anything?
What are the different psychological disorders, and how can they be treated?
What makes us who we are? Do our personalities change over time or basically stay the same?
Tuesday, May 30
Checked HW
3 Senior Book Talks (Emerson, Zach & Tim)
Finished Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
Read "Why You Won't Be Who You Think You'll Be" & answered Qs
Reminder: Personality Test Thursday; bring all HW!
Thursday, May 25
Check HW
Theories of personality presentations
East v. West podcast
De-briefed "The Moral Child" & "Should Schools Teach Personality?"
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Development
HW: The Science of Siblings
Reminders: Book Talks start Tuesday; test on personality on Thursday
Tuesday, May 23
Reminder: psych book presentations begin next Tuesday, May 30
Make & present personality theories posters
HW: 1) Read & answer Qs for "Raising a Moral Child" & "Should Schools Teach Personality?"
Reminder: Myers-Briggs personal reflection due Thursday along with parent & friend reflections
Monday, May 22
Senior Ditch Day/Read book or article
Thursday, May 18
Trait Theory: took Myers-Briggs personality test & assigned HW
TED Talk on Power of Introverts
Started "nurture" theories--read about a specific personality theory & took notes to present to class
HW: complete HW on Myers-Briggs; parent & friend reflections due next Thurdsay
Tuesday, May 16
Discussed personality survey
Review of Trait Theory
Challenge to Trait Theory: Cat & Rat
Trait Theory groupwork
Trait personality test
Read "What's My Type?" & self-assess your personality
HW: Finish reading "What's My Type?" & self-assessment
Monday, May 15
Explained book project
Read
HW: Personality Trait Theory p. 392-395
Thursday, May 11
Last disorder presentation: internet addiction (Sam)
Disorders bingo review
Disorders Test
Tuesday, May 9
Disorder presentations: schizophrenia, dissociative disorder, sleep disorders (Tim & Ryan, Lily & Matthew, Charlie)
Watched 1st episode of United States of Tara
Monday, May 8
Read Monday reading book; only 3 weeks left!
Thursday, May 4
Took Narcissism PD Quiz
Read about personality disorders in textbook & took notes
Disorder presentations: anorexia, social anxiety, and bipolar (Emerson, Kyle, and Aldo)
Will finish presentations Tuesday; Test Thursday
Tuesday, May 2
Disorder presentations: 1) Borderline, Anti-Social and Narcissistic Personality Disorders (Phineas); 2) Impulse-Control Disorders (Zach); 3) PTSD (Christie)
Test on psych disorders Tuesday
Monday, May 1
Critiqued ppts & had time to revise ppts or read Monday reading book
Thursday, April 27
Synthesized & de-briefed readings & podcast on psychopathy
Disorder ppts due Monday
Tuesday, April 25
Finished disorder treatment posters & presented
Monday, April 24
Checked on podcast HW & assigned "Ch. 40 psychopathy" reading HW
Reviewed what makes for an effective ppt.
Worked on disorder treatment posters
HW: Read & take notes on psychopathy
Thursday, April 20
Checked "What a Killer Thinks" HW
Collected Autism notes
Finished intro to psych disorders reading & Qs
Watched video of history of mental health treatments
Read & took notes on selected treatment; started posters
HW: Listen to & take notes on 1st 34 minutes of "The Secret History of Thoughts"
Tuesday, April 18
Finished discussing autism--2 first-person perspectives (Temple Grandin video here)
Started psychological treatment methods--read in textbook & did Qs
HW: Read & take notes on "What a Killer Thinks"
Monday, April 17
Read
Looked at psych reading book key terms
Thursday, April 6
Read & take notes on textbook description of autism
Read & take notes on Simon Baron-Cohen's description of autism
Finish Rain Man
Turn in key terms for book
Tuesday, April 4
Continue Rain Man
Start psych disorder treatments: Biological Treatments
Monday, April 3
Read/work on key terms (due Thursday)
Thursday, March 30
Research time--3rd set of notes due
Finished "A Beautiful Mind" & de-briefed John Nash & schizophrenia
Started "Rain Man"
Tuesday, March 28
Research time--check out "crash course" series, Abnormal Psych book & NY Times for good sources of info on your disorders
Continued watching "A Beautiful Mind"
Monday, March 27
Read and/or work on key term exposition
Thursday, March 23
Worked on psych disorder project--2nd set of notes due
Continued watching "A Beautiful Mind"
Tuesday, March 21
Finish up OCD notes (treatment)
Time to work on psych disorder project--2nd set of notes due Thursday
Started "A Beautiful Mind"
Monday, March 20
Explained Psych Book Project Key Term Exposition (see GC for assignment due April 6)
Read psych book
Thursday, March 16
Worked on textbook notes for disorder (turn in on GC)
Finished "As Good As It Gets"
Tuesday, March 14
Journal #7
Introduce Psychological Disorders Project
Peruse disorders, pick 3, select a partner (optional)
Watch Colbert Report--Scott Stossel on "My Age of Anxiety"
Continue watching "As Good As It Gets"
Monday, March 13
no school
Thursday, March 9
Start psychological disorders unit--read & answer Qs for pp. 499-502
Read and answer Qs about anxiety disorders & obsessive-compulsive disorder
Start "As Good As It Gets"
Tuesday, March 7
Dream Interpretation game review
Dreams/Consciousness Test
Share/interpret a dream
Monday, March 6
Read free choice book
Reminder: Tomorrow is test on sleep/consciousness/dreams. Bring all notes!!
Thursday, March 2
Scharf absent
Watched "Experimenter"
Consciousness & Dreams test moved to Tuesday
Bring reading book Monday
Tuesday, February 28
BQ #3
Journal #6: Which theory of dreams resonates most with you?
De-briefed "Night School"--history of sleep
De-briefed archetypes in Star Wars
Dream Symbol Lecture
HW: Read & take note on "How do know if a dream interpretation is right?" and "Importance of Understanding Dreams"
Test on Consciousness & Dreams Thursday (bring notes!)
Share & interpret a dream on Thursday
Monday, February 27
Read
Project Breakthrough Day
HW: Common Dreams in Adolescence
Thursday, February 16
FInished Star Wars & Jungian archetypes
Tuesday, February 14
Finished Nova's "What are Dreams?"
Reviewed film & article ("Night School")
Lecture of Freud & Jung & Dreams
Started Jungian interpretation of Star Wars
HW: Finish "Night School"
Monday, February 13
Read free-choice psych books
HW: Read & take notes on "Night School" up to Pt. V
Friday, February 10 (Thursday schedule)
Read pp. 133-135 in textbook about sleep & dreams
Started watching Nova's "What are Dreams" & take notes
Mini-lecture on defense mechanisms
HW: Read UP TO Pt. V of "Night School"
Monday, February 6
Read psych free-reading book
Thursday, February 2
Journal #5: How much do you pay attention to your dreams?
Watched clip from Baraka--Kecak dance
Discussed sleep & teenagers/alternative Tam schedule
Read pp. 128-131 in text--what is consciousness? levels of consciousness
Introduced Sigmund Freud: the psyche ppt. lecture--id, superego, ego
HW: record a dream to share in 2 weeks
Tuesday, January 31
Normalcy Twiz
Shared "abnormal" experiments
Introduced Dreams/Consciousness unit with clip from Baraka on the Whirling Dervishes & consciousness
HW: Read "Hard Lesson in Sleep for Teenagers" & answer Qs (on Google Classroom)
Monday, January 30
Read
Reviewed for twiz
Listened to "Mother's Little Helper" & saw ads for prozac
HW: Read "Medicating Women's Feelings"
Thursday, January 26
Tuesday, January 24
BQ on Determining What is Normal
Continued watching King of Hearts
Journal #4: Is it normal to be free of discomfort? Or is mental, emotional, & physical discomfort is part of being human? If you could take a pill to relieve you of any discomfort, would you? What might you gain, and what might you lose?
Finished King of Hearts and de-briefed
Met in groups and synthesized 4 "normal" articles
HW: Valium's Contribution to the New Normal"--read & take notes on chart
Monday, January 23
Read psych free-reading book
HW: Read "Determining What is Normal & What's Not" and take notes
Reminder: "abnormal" experiment due next Tuesday, Jan. 31
Thursday, January 19
Course Overview Quiz
Shared "do's and don'ts" of Marin
Discussed "What's normal, What's not?"
Journal #3: Can war ever be considered normal?
Started watching The King of Hearts
HW: Read & take notes on article #2: "Relax, You're Normal"
Reminder: Bring psych reading book Monday
Tuesday, January 17
Reviewed course for new students
Finished "What is normal?" lecture
Read "Welcome to America" and then worked in trios to create a "guidebook" to Marin
HW: 1) Try something "abnormal" by Jan. 31 2) Read "What's normal, what's not?" and take notes for Thursday
Thursday, January 12
Went to library to select a book to read on Mondays
Journal #2: Describe a "normal" Tam student. What classes do they take, what EC activiites (sports, clubs) do they do, what do they wear, what/where do they eat, what do they listen to, do they have a job, what do they do over summer, how do they get to school?
Discussed "Raising the Ritalin Generation"
Started "What is normal?" lecture
HW: none
Tuesday, January 10
Reviewed Course Overview--policies, procedures, units of study (course overview posted on GC under "About"
Signed up on Google Classroom, looked at website, signed up for text service
Introduced Monday Book Reading project--looked at list & perused books online (book list also on GC under "About")
Worked on "Getting to Know You" on Google Classroom (finish for HW if not done)
Started unit on normalcy: Journal #1--What is normal?
Started reading "Raising the Ritalin Generation"--take notes on paper or GC
HW: Finish Getting to Know You, Journal Prompt, and Ritalin Generation article
Checked HW
3 Senior Book Talks (Emerson, Zach & Tim)
Finished Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
Read "Why You Won't Be Who You Think You'll Be" & answered Qs
Reminder: Personality Test Thursday; bring all HW!
Thursday, May 25
Check HW
Theories of personality presentations
East v. West podcast
De-briefed "The Moral Child" & "Should Schools Teach Personality?"
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Development
HW: The Science of Siblings
Reminders: Book Talks start Tuesday; test on personality on Thursday
Tuesday, May 23
Reminder: psych book presentations begin next Tuesday, May 30
Make & present personality theories posters
HW: 1) Read & answer Qs for "Raising a Moral Child" & "Should Schools Teach Personality?"
Reminder: Myers-Briggs personal reflection due Thursday along with parent & friend reflections
Monday, May 22
Senior Ditch Day/Read book or article
Thursday, May 18
Trait Theory: took Myers-Briggs personality test & assigned HW
TED Talk on Power of Introverts
Started "nurture" theories--read about a specific personality theory & took notes to present to class
HW: complete HW on Myers-Briggs; parent & friend reflections due next Thurdsay
Tuesday, May 16
Discussed personality survey
Review of Trait Theory
Challenge to Trait Theory: Cat & Rat
Trait Theory groupwork
Trait personality test
Read "What's My Type?" & self-assess your personality
HW: Finish reading "What's My Type?" & self-assessment
Monday, May 15
Explained book project
Read
HW: Personality Trait Theory p. 392-395
Thursday, May 11
Last disorder presentation: internet addiction (Sam)
Disorders bingo review
Disorders Test
Tuesday, May 9
Disorder presentations: schizophrenia, dissociative disorder, sleep disorders (Tim & Ryan, Lily & Matthew, Charlie)
Watched 1st episode of United States of Tara
Monday, May 8
Read Monday reading book; only 3 weeks left!
Thursday, May 4
Took Narcissism PD Quiz
Read about personality disorders in textbook & took notes
Disorder presentations: anorexia, social anxiety, and bipolar (Emerson, Kyle, and Aldo)
Will finish presentations Tuesday; Test Thursday
Tuesday, May 2
Disorder presentations: 1) Borderline, Anti-Social and Narcissistic Personality Disorders (Phineas); 2) Impulse-Control Disorders (Zach); 3) PTSD (Christie)
Test on psych disorders Tuesday
Monday, May 1
Critiqued ppts & had time to revise ppts or read Monday reading book
Thursday, April 27
Synthesized & de-briefed readings & podcast on psychopathy
Disorder ppts due Monday
Tuesday, April 25
Finished disorder treatment posters & presented
Monday, April 24
Checked on podcast HW & assigned "Ch. 40 psychopathy" reading HW
Reviewed what makes for an effective ppt.
Worked on disorder treatment posters
HW: Read & take notes on psychopathy
Thursday, April 20
Checked "What a Killer Thinks" HW
Collected Autism notes
Finished intro to psych disorders reading & Qs
Watched video of history of mental health treatments
Read & took notes on selected treatment; started posters
HW: Listen to & take notes on 1st 34 minutes of "The Secret History of Thoughts"
Tuesday, April 18
Finished discussing autism--2 first-person perspectives (Temple Grandin video here)
Started psychological treatment methods--read in textbook & did Qs
HW: Read & take notes on "What a Killer Thinks"
Monday, April 17
Read
Looked at psych reading book key terms
Thursday, April 6
Read & take notes on textbook description of autism
Read & take notes on Simon Baron-Cohen's description of autism
Finish Rain Man
Turn in key terms for book
Tuesday, April 4
Continue Rain Man
Start psych disorder treatments: Biological Treatments
Monday, April 3
Read/work on key terms (due Thursday)
Thursday, March 30
Research time--3rd set of notes due
Finished "A Beautiful Mind" & de-briefed John Nash & schizophrenia
Started "Rain Man"
Tuesday, March 28
Research time--check out "crash course" series, Abnormal Psych book & NY Times for good sources of info on your disorders
Continued watching "A Beautiful Mind"
Monday, March 27
Read and/or work on key term exposition
Thursday, March 23
Worked on psych disorder project--2nd set of notes due
Continued watching "A Beautiful Mind"
Tuesday, March 21
Finish up OCD notes (treatment)
Time to work on psych disorder project--2nd set of notes due Thursday
Started "A Beautiful Mind"
Monday, March 20
Explained Psych Book Project Key Term Exposition (see GC for assignment due April 6)
Read psych book
Thursday, March 16
Worked on textbook notes for disorder (turn in on GC)
Finished "As Good As It Gets"
Tuesday, March 14
Journal #7
Introduce Psychological Disorders Project
Peruse disorders, pick 3, select a partner (optional)
Watch Colbert Report--Scott Stossel on "My Age of Anxiety"
Continue watching "As Good As It Gets"
Monday, March 13
no school
Thursday, March 9
Start psychological disorders unit--read & answer Qs for pp. 499-502
Read and answer Qs about anxiety disorders & obsessive-compulsive disorder
Start "As Good As It Gets"
Tuesday, March 7
Dream Interpretation game review
Dreams/Consciousness Test
Share/interpret a dream
Monday, March 6
Read free choice book
Reminder: Tomorrow is test on sleep/consciousness/dreams. Bring all notes!!
Thursday, March 2
Scharf absent
Watched "Experimenter"
Consciousness & Dreams test moved to Tuesday
Bring reading book Monday
Tuesday, February 28
BQ #3
Journal #6: Which theory of dreams resonates most with you?
De-briefed "Night School"--history of sleep
De-briefed archetypes in Star Wars
Dream Symbol Lecture
HW: Read & take note on "How do know if a dream interpretation is right?" and "Importance of Understanding Dreams"
Test on Consciousness & Dreams Thursday (bring notes!)
Share & interpret a dream on Thursday
Monday, February 27
Read
Project Breakthrough Day
HW: Common Dreams in Adolescence
Thursday, February 16
FInished Star Wars & Jungian archetypes
Tuesday, February 14
Finished Nova's "What are Dreams?"
Reviewed film & article ("Night School")
Lecture of Freud & Jung & Dreams
Started Jungian interpretation of Star Wars
HW: Finish "Night School"
Monday, February 13
Read free-choice psych books
HW: Read & take notes on "Night School" up to Pt. V
Friday, February 10 (Thursday schedule)
Read pp. 133-135 in textbook about sleep & dreams
Started watching Nova's "What are Dreams" & take notes
Mini-lecture on defense mechanisms
HW: Read UP TO Pt. V of "Night School"
Monday, February 6
Read psych free-reading book
Thursday, February 2
Journal #5: How much do you pay attention to your dreams?
Watched clip from Baraka--Kecak dance
Discussed sleep & teenagers/alternative Tam schedule
Read pp. 128-131 in text--what is consciousness? levels of consciousness
Introduced Sigmund Freud: the psyche ppt. lecture--id, superego, ego
HW: record a dream to share in 2 weeks
Tuesday, January 31
Normalcy Twiz
Shared "abnormal" experiments
Introduced Dreams/Consciousness unit with clip from Baraka on the Whirling Dervishes & consciousness
HW: Read "Hard Lesson in Sleep for Teenagers" & answer Qs (on Google Classroom)
Monday, January 30
Read
Reviewed for twiz
Listened to "Mother's Little Helper" & saw ads for prozac
HW: Read "Medicating Women's Feelings"
Thursday, January 26
Tuesday, January 24
BQ on Determining What is Normal
Continued watching King of Hearts
Journal #4: Is it normal to be free of discomfort? Or is mental, emotional, & physical discomfort is part of being human? If you could take a pill to relieve you of any discomfort, would you? What might you gain, and what might you lose?
Finished King of Hearts and de-briefed
Met in groups and synthesized 4 "normal" articles
HW: Valium's Contribution to the New Normal"--read & take notes on chart
Monday, January 23
Read psych free-reading book
HW: Read "Determining What is Normal & What's Not" and take notes
Reminder: "abnormal" experiment due next Tuesday, Jan. 31
Thursday, January 19
Course Overview Quiz
Shared "do's and don'ts" of Marin
Discussed "What's normal, What's not?"
Journal #3: Can war ever be considered normal?
Started watching The King of Hearts
HW: Read & take notes on article #2: "Relax, You're Normal"
Reminder: Bring psych reading book Monday
Tuesday, January 17
Reviewed course for new students
Finished "What is normal?" lecture
Read "Welcome to America" and then worked in trios to create a "guidebook" to Marin
HW: 1) Try something "abnormal" by Jan. 31 2) Read "What's normal, what's not?" and take notes for Thursday
Thursday, January 12
Went to library to select a book to read on Mondays
Journal #2: Describe a "normal" Tam student. What classes do they take, what EC activiites (sports, clubs) do they do, what do they wear, what/where do they eat, what do they listen to, do they have a job, what do they do over summer, how do they get to school?
Discussed "Raising the Ritalin Generation"
Started "What is normal?" lecture
HW: none
Tuesday, January 10
Reviewed Course Overview--policies, procedures, units of study (course overview posted on GC under "About"
Signed up on Google Classroom, looked at website, signed up for text service
Introduced Monday Book Reading project--looked at list & perused books online (book list also on GC under "About")
Worked on "Getting to Know You" on Google Classroom (finish for HW if not done)
Started unit on normalcy: Journal #1--What is normal?
Started reading "Raising the Ritalin Generation"--take notes on paper or GC
HW: Finish Getting to Know You, Journal Prompt, and Ritalin Generation article