12.05 - Social Sanctions

We started today's class by looking at a quote by Jack Kerouac and then responding to a series of questions designed to help us start looking at the way society encourages and discourages certain behaviors (see slides below).

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After everyone had a chance to respond to each question we discussed the different answers that people had. This transitioned us into talking about social sanctions which help to describe the ways in which people encourage and discourage certain behaviors in others. To help outline the range of possible sanctions we looked at and discussed the following chart:

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After discussing these sanctions and getting a sense for how they worked, everyone filled out a chart identifying sanctions that they had experienced within the last week. Next, everyone got copies of Speak and signed them out.

Homework:

Practice your Poetry Out Loud poem (the class competition is next Friday, 12/13)

Complete or revise any other work for the course as necessary.