{"id":142,"date":"2011-11-14T14:13:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T14:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2011\/11\/14\/easy-extra-credit-opportunity-for-your-students\/"},"modified":"2015-08-25T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:47:08","slug":"easy-extra-credit-opportunity-for-your-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2011\/11\/14\/easy-extra-credit-opportunity-for-your-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Extra Credit Opportunity For Your Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Hey everyone,<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m sick and can&#8217;t muster the energy to write a full fledged post. &nbsp;So instead I&#8217;m going to share with you my directions for a super easy extra credit opportunity. &nbsp;Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologyinfocus.com\/\">SociologyInFocus.com<\/a> where, full discloser, I&#8217;m editor-in-chief we have a pile of awesome sociology articles that pair a sociological concept with a current event or personal anecdote. &nbsp;Each article ends with 3-4 questions that ask your students to Dig Deeper and explore how the sociological concepts discussed in the article affect them and the world they live in. &nbsp;You can think of SociologyInFocus.com as a sociology micro-reader or as I like to say, a sociology reader for the Twitter generation.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve cooked up some simple directions that you can <a href=\"\/storage\/materials\/SociologyInFocus_ExtraCredit.doc\">download here<\/a> that ask students to briefly summarize the article, answer the questions, and print\/turn it in. &nbsp;Super easy. &nbsp;Totally free. &nbsp;Heck yeah!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Be back next week with 100% less cooties.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hey everyone, &nbsp; I&#8217;m sick and can&#8217;t muster the energy to write a full fledged post. &nbsp;So instead I&#8217;m going to share with you my directions for a super easy extra credit opportunity. &nbsp;Over at SociologyInFocus.com where, full discloser, I&#8217;m editor-in-chief we have a pile of awesome sociology articles that pair a sociological concept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30650],"tags":[16463,30654],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-for-teachers","tag-assignments","tag-sociology-in-focus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}