Learning Capitalist Culture
Chapter 4 – Working and Playing Around in the Classroom
1. Who
composed each of the three class levels at North Town High School? (pgs. 101 –
102)
2. Draw a seating chart? (pg. 101)
3. What
was one way Anglos believed Mexicans could do better in school? (pg. 102)
4. Teachers
perform their roles without being openly racist for several reasons. List and
discuss the three reasons. (pgs. 104 – 105)
5. Did returning North Town students often say about how they were prepared for
university?(pg. 109)
6. What
were classes geared towards? What did classes lack?(pg. 109)
7. Even
though ‘mainstreamers’ disagreed they both
wanted many of the same things for society. What were they? (pg. 111)
8. What
is the ‘making out game’? (pg. 112 - 113)
9. What
is the most important commodity schools produce? (pg. 113)
10. Define
reciprocity.
11. How does
reciprocity and the ‘making out game’ work together? (pg. 113 - 128)
12. What are
the five basic notions of reciprocity that all successful North Town teachers
have? (pg. 134)
13. Discuss
how impression management plays an important role in TWO of the
following...(Why is it necessary, why is it practiced, what would happen
without it)
a. Teachers
in the classroom
b. Dating
c. Football
d. Partying
