Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

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Background Information:

demographics	fiscal cliff	Pentagon
Millenial	General Hospital	"jump the shark"
David Patraeus	soap opera & typical plot	Susan Lucci
salacious	spymaster	Amnesia

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Culture and Subculture Activity
Challenge: Given an Oxford Hills High School yearbook, answer all the questions below and complete the culture analysis sheet.
Yearbook Questions/Tasks:

1. Five least popular names
2. Top three students & what they did for activities
3. Three advertisers no longer in the Oxford Hills
4. Name of Principal and physical description
5. Three clubs that no loner exist
6. Record of the football team & girls’ basketball team
7. One fashion item that could be worn today and not stick out
8. One fashion item that could not be worn today without stick out
9. Number of boys whose hair is over the ear in any way
10. Percentage of boys not wearing ties in the senior pictures
11. Who is the book dedicated to? Read the dedication.
12. Percentage of faculty with a moustache 
13. Find a picture that can placed today
14. Find someone you know
15. Number of teachers who still work here
16. Who is the most popular girl and what evidence did you use to make that determination
17. Who is the most popular boy and what evidence did you use to make that determination
18. Pick one kid randomly and deduce everything you can about them
19. Describe the cover and explain why that design was picked.
20. If you had to go back in time and go undercover, what would you wear?
21. Pick and date for Mr. Toohey and why would she be a good fit for him?
22. Who would your friend be any why.
23. Who is in most need of a makover?
24. Who looks most like you?

Yearbook Analysis Sheet:
Directions: On the sheet, write down a cultural rule for each category with a page number for a picture or words that you can use to explain how you figured out that rule.  For example, you might say that one of the rules for "Grooming and Presence" is "Boys should wear their hair above the ears."