Thursday, December 19th, 2013

 Students do this: 
1) Again, take this homework survey.
2) Take the poll
3) Review the calendar tab above.
4) Check your shared folder for work I have returned.
5) Create a document (calendar, list, whatever) that details when you will work over vacation. Show us your result.
6) Download this for the Philosophy Challenge.

Vocabulary Quiz: 
revelry
metaphor
metacognition
conservative
liberal
Roots:
in-
a-, ab-, abs-
bi-, bis-
circum-

Colbert Report

Fall of Rome Honors (or Optional) Essay
Mr. Toohey will review how to connect the reasons Rome fell to contemporary America.  The is due by 2pm Friday.
Example of Article

Beans Quiz

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.

Every Word Matters

We'll be looking at a short story called "The Birthday Party" and looking how the author carefully uses language and word choice to make a story really work.  After completing the exercise, you'll be working equally hard to craft PERFECT Beans essays.

In the Future:

Maslow Self-Assessment

Surveying Norway
Challenge: Find out everything you can about Downtown Norway.
Possible Tasks:
Survey questions on Rome
List of businesses and categories
List of things that are missing in Norway (through surveying people)
Brainstorming things that are missing (students)
From a busy location, do a visual survey of number of people and gender
Cars per hour