Homework Review: (Suggested: 5 Minutes)
Citing some of our course terms, explain what can “Mrs. Beazley’s Deeds” tell us about the basic struggles people may face when they aspire to a professional status.
In-Class Journal: (Suggested: 10 minutes)
How do people from different economic (income) backgrounds work? Describe to me how you envision lower-income, middle-income, and upper-income people your age working. What are the similarities and differences? Again, begin with definitions for these terms.
Group Discussion: (Suggested 5-7 Minutes)
Talk about the first difficult (notice that I did not say best or worst) job you held. What was it about that job that you liked the most and least? Keep a list of your responses. Once you have done that, come up with a statement that identifies which income bracket that job might be associated with, and whether or not you would have considered yourself a professional in the workforce while you were working on this job.
Group Presentations: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)
Mini-Lecture: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)
Two new terms today: Work and Professional
Work: What is it?
What do we think?
Definition: Work: “activities undertaken for the purpose of maintaining or advancing a social position.”
Professional:
What is it?
What do we think?
A professional is someone who “adheres to a specific set of ethical standards that privilege the interests of an occupation over the interests of the worker.”
Homework: Read and annotate the first fifteen pages of Stephen Crane’s “Maggie: a Girl of the Streets”
