Appendix A
In this unit I will be using the local community college's Performance Objective that my students must meet as well as a Common Core Literacy Standard that focuses on the integration of knowledge and ideas. The College Wide Core Course (CCC) Performance Objective that I follow is to describe the research methods used by sociologists. Students need to: identify the six research methods in sociology and list the strengths and limitations of each method.
The CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.7 Standard that I want students to focus on is to Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Instead of just memorizing and listing the information, students will engage in the research methods focusing on a restaurant in the city of Wilmington. They will choose a restaurant, use the research methods (document study, observation, and interviews) to collect data, reflect on each of these methods' strengths and limitations, and synthesize these multiple sources of information to write up reports to describe the sociology of the art of dining in a way that emulates what sociologists in their own research. Students will focus on the question: In collecting data, how do sociologists make the invisible visible?
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