“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”......Richard Steele...
I am always looking for NOTEBOOK PAPER, PLASTIC FORKS/SPOONS, PAPER TOWELS, HAND-SANITIZER & KLEENEX TISSUES, and SMALL BITE-SIZE CANDIES for the class.    
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Please note that when you go to the respective HOMEWORK PAGES, only those with the READY-TO-GO logo [left] are up-to-date & complete.                             

APUSH   

As of now, I've POSTED grades on FOCUS.  If you find an error, simply PRINT the report, HIGHLIGHT the error, and STAPLE your returned assignment with the earned grade, so I can make quick changes for you.
Don't forget to check GOOGLE CALENDAR for HOMEWORK.  Continue to follow the assignments and deadlines as you have since the beginning of school.

Please continue to read, review & reinforce all material.  Take advantage of time and go over the optional material too.   Stay up with GOOGLE CALENDAR HOMEWORK.

We will resume the day after VETERANS DAY [of which I was discussing with some about me being in Vietnam 47 years ago.  I remember that my immediate leaders during that time were WORLD WAR II & KOREAN WAR veterans.   I loved their stories and analysis of the times.  At that time I was enlisted and my immediate supervisor was a member of the elite 442nd Infantry Division [most decorated unit], and my Chief Master Sergeant was a full Colonel who flew 25 missions over Germany in a B-17. My night shift supervisor was a loadmaster on a C-47 during the Berlin Airlift.  I loved his stories about the humanitarian efforts.   I had an interesting story on a particular veterans day when I was assigned to Okinawa.  My father fought there in WWII.  I wasn't ever a hero in my 21 years of service, but my dad was ... earning 1 silver star, 2 bronze stars and 3 purple hearts.   I wrote him a letter asking him to tell me anything about his route he took in 1945 from the beachhead to inland.  He did and I retraced much of his route from the beach to the middle of the island.  It was tough just walking in peacetime, let alone during battles.  He was there nearly  73 years ago.   One veterans day, in 1974, I was assigned to Holloman AFB, and myself and two buddies rented a trailer to live, and our landlord as a full-blooded Apache native-American.  There were times when we went to the rent that he would invite us to some ceremonies where they told stories about their great-grandfathers when they fought the U.S. Calvary.   To say the least,  the history we listened to was a version not normally heard anywhere. 

Okay, I think I regressed somewhat from our lesson plan for the week, but we will conduct a STORYBOARD session covering from Martin Van Buren through James Buchanan, specifically looking at Domestic and Foreign policies.  I will discuss more in class.  ​It is weighted as a 100-point assignment.  
AP PSYCHOLOGY  

THOUGHTS OF MEMORY FRQ
Please HYPERLINK on the FRQ LOGO to open up a PDF on our last FRQ for MEMORY.  I've included some of the KEY INFORMATION I was looking for in your ANALYSIS and COVERAGE of PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS & TERMS.  

SOLUTIONS TO DEFENSE MECHANISMS WORKSHEET

​As of now, I've POSTED grades on FOCUS.  If you find an error, simply PRINT the report, HIGHLIGHT the error, and STAPLE your returned assignment with the earned grade, so I can make quick changes for you.

PROBLEM-SOLVING SOLUTIONS 

Please HYPERLINK on the SOLUTIONS ICON [below] to access the originator's thought processing behind their solutions to the EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY in class on October 29th.  EXTRA CREDIT POINTS were awarded and inputted in FOCUS. 
NOVEMBER 1ST EXAM
  • Creativity
  • SCENARIO:  Anxiety.  Which perspective applies.
  • Psychological Approaches
  • Introspection
  • Types of parenting
  • Memories/Knowledge of Skills
  • SCENARIO:  Mental illnesses and poverty
  • SCENARIO:  Door-in-the-face; Foot-in-the-Door; Norms of reciprocity; Self-fulfilling Prophecy
  • Symptoms of Depression
  • Carl Rogers
  • SCENARIO:  belief bias, framing, mental set, functional fixedness
  • SCENARIO:  Bystander Effect
  • SCENARIO:  Cognitive Dissonance Theory
  • ECT
  • Types of hormones
  • Parts of the Nervous System
  • Psychological perspectives
  • Memory [in general]
  • Parts of the brain and functions
  • SCENARIO:  Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
  • Defense Mechanisms [examples given; choose correctly]
  • SCENARIO:  Attribution Theory
  • Main advantages of Group Therapy
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GOOGLE CALENDAR for HOMEWORK is up and running.  Continue to follow the assignments and deadlines as you have since the beginning of school.

Please continue to read, review & reinforce all material.  Take advantage of time and go over the optional material too.   Stay up with GOOGLE CALENDAR HOMEWORK.

You will find [above] the solutions for the 35-DEFENSE MECHANISMS, as well as, my scoring thoughts on our last FRQ for MEMORY.  Please review them and let me know if  you have any questions.

We will resume the day after VETERANS DAY [of which I was discussing with some about me being in Vietnam 47 years ago.  I remember that my immediate leaders during that time were WORLD WAR II & KOREAN WAR veterans.   I loved their stories and analysis of the times.  At that time I was enlisted and my immediate supervisor was a member of the elite 442nd Infantry Division [most decorated unit], and my Chief Master Sergeant was a full Colonel who flew 25 missions over Germany in a B-17. My night shift supervisor was a loadmaster on a C-47 during the Berlin Airlift.  I loved his stories about the humanitarian efforts.   I had an interesting story on a particular veterans day when I was assigned to Okinawa.  My father fought there in WWII.  I wasn't ever a hero in my 21 years of service, but my dad was ... earning 1 silver star, 2 bronze stars and 3 purple hearts.   I wrote him a letter asking him to tell me anything about his route he took in 1945 from the beachhead to inland.  He did and I retraced much of his route from the beach to the middle of the island.  It was tough just walking in peacetime, let alone during battles.  He was there nearly  73 years ago.   One veterans day, in 1974, I was assigned to Holloman AFB, and myself and two buddies rented a trailer to live, and our landlord as a full-blooded Apache native-American.  There were times when we went to the rent that he would invite us to some ceremonies where they told stories about their great-grandfathers when they fought the U.S. Calvary.   To say the least,  the history we listened to was a version not normally heard anywhere. 

Okay, I think I regressed somewhat from our lesson plan for the week, but we will conduct a group collaboration tasking where each group will be assigned a personality disorder which they will work for a presentation the next day. 

​It is weighted as a 100-point assignment.  Any students missing will be assigned a written report covering the same material, so it must be covered even in an absence.   Presentations will be evaluated with a rubric.  Other than that, we will end the week working into the biology of psychology.   

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  • Bipolar disorder
  • SCENARIO:  Types of Memory
  • SCENARIO:  Freud’s Psychosexual Theory of Development
  • Broca’s area
  • SCENARIO:  Types of Memory
  • Consciousness, Pre-Consciousness, Sub-Consciousness
  • Parts of brain involved in decision making
  • SCENARIO:  GAD
  • Group Polarization
  • Units of Language
  • SCENARIO:  Functional Fixedness, Availability & Representative Heuristics, Belief Perseverance, Confirmation Bias
  • Psychological perspectives [dealing with self-esteem]
  • Brain’s composition
  • SCENARIO: Id, Ego & Superego
  • Maslow & esteem needs
  • Behaviorists
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Types of memory failures
  • SCENARIO: Bystander Effect, Groupthink, Social Loafing, Mere Exposure Effect, Fundamental Attribution Disorder
  • SCENARIO:  Types of disorder discussed so far
  • Types of heuristics
  • Medical Model of psychologically disordered behavior [most likely to be criticized]
  • Babbling, cooing, holphrases, telegraphic speech mental set
  • Endocrine glands
  • SCENARIO:  Foot-in-the-door, overcompensation, proximity, in-group bias
  • Loss of the ability to understand language
  • SCENARIO: Types of memories

Should I get real comfortable with everything on your web site?    You can see (below) just about everyone knows the answer, right?

West Shore Jr. Sr. High School

Here is a video I found on YOUTUBE created by a former student at West Shore a few years ago.  You may enjoy taking a look.
Idiom of the Day

all bark and no bite

Full of talk that is more threatening or impressive than that which one can or will actually do.
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