STAR Testing
Students:
1) Click the link "Assignments with Problems."
2) Take the poll
3) DRESS WARMLY next Tuesday -- we'll be walking downtown. It will be VERY COLD.
4) REMINDER -- Honors and bonus writing assignment listed at end of today's entry.
Marshmallows
How can we use the computers effectively? The marshmallow experiment...
Computer Organization
Vocab Quiz
parallels
compare and contrast
philosophy
conscripted
credibility gap
alliance
levies
political
Stranger Quiz
Stranger Activity
Enter significant quotes into grid (downloaded two classes ago): find one for each aspect of existentialism.
Purpose Presentation
Challenge Scenerio: Pretend that in 7 minutes a school board member is walking into the room to ask the question, "Why have you been doing what you are doing in this class and how are they connected?"
Challenge: You have five minutes to write and submit a single Pages document the justifies: 1) The pdf on the 13 reasons Rome Fell; 2) the two to Colbert Report videos on Rob Ford; 3) looking at yearbook ads; 4) reading Ernie's Ark; 5) Interviews with staff; 6) watching today's Colbert Report on the disappearing middle class. Submit the assignment with the title purposePresentation.
Colbert or Daily Show Video
Keynote & Survey on Fall of Rome (with optional Essay Assignment)
Challenge Narrative: Mr. Springer, a former history teacher, believes that teaching the fall of Rome is a waste of time. Your challenge is to prove him incorrect, unless the evidence proves otherwise.
Challenge: Put data from your surveys into a spreadsheet to create charts. If you have no data, go out and get data.
Philosophy Challenge
Purpose: Philosophy and religion exist for the sole purpose of giving purpose and explaining how life works. They can be very useful when things aren't going so well and can make one's life significantly better. Personal philosophies can be by-products of where you live, "inherited" from your family or chosen by you.
Challenge Narrative: Pretend you are have just been zapped by the Men In Black stun device. The device has been set to remove all philosophical beliefs from your normally driven, purposeful brain. You no have no idea what the purpose of life is and are shopping around for a philosophy that make sense.
Challenge: You're going to be given one quotation at at time. All the quotes come from different philosophies. For each quote, you must 1) Find out who said the quote; 2) name the philosophy it came from; 3) explain exactly what the quote means, as simply as possible, and; 4) explain a time in your life the quote and it's underlying belief would have been useful. If your group finishes with a quotation, you will get another. You will be quizzed next class on the quotes' meanings.
The Quotes:
- You cannot step in the same river twice.
- God is dead.
- Death need not concern us because when we exist death does not, and when death exists we do not.
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- The struggle itself...is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy
- The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, we did it ourselves.
- Man is the measure of all things.
- Nothing in the world—indeed nothing even beyond the world—can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a good will.
- Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- I think therefore I am.
- Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
- To lead the people, walk behind them.
For Honors and anyone wishing for supplemental credit
Using the "Thesis Formula" (downloaded above), spend exactly two hours writing a paper on your choice reading book for October. Stop writing after the hour is up. When you submit the essay, write at the top exactly when and where you spent these two hours. The title of the assignment is "choiceReadingEssay." It is due by the beginning of class Tuesday, 11/26. It will not be accepted any time after this point.
In the Future:
Maslow Self-Assessment
Philosophy Challenge--Why study philosophy? "You can't step in the same river twice."
Making spreadsheets and charts -- survey downtown Norway. Challenge: find ways to quantify the strengths and weaknesses and display the data in a chart.
Ernie's Ark closing activity
Lesson on Organization
Challenge: Create a one minute presentation that explains how you use your computer to organize your work. If you do not currently have a method, you will learn one from a classmate.
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