Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013

Teachers: Return papers, etc;  think about seating; review computer care; review assignment submission.

Students: 
1) Return your Ernie's Ark Books
2) Click the link "Assignments with Problems."
3) Take the poll
5) Download this.
6) Honors: You must finish an independent reading book by 1/3/2014.  An essay on that book is due on January 6th, 2014.

Vocabulary Words
Social Class
Stereotype
Poverty
Demographics
Per Capita
Values
Taboos
Esthetics

Stranger Quiz

Finish The Rivals
Challenge: Using the Elements of Deep Culture comparison sheet, compare & contrast the two communities.
Directions: You will have 20 minutes to fill out and submit your individual form -- work with your randomly chosen group of 4. Export as a pdf and name the document "deepCulture."  Submit it to the dropbox.
--Next, you will pick 5 of the elements and will have 5 minutes to create a presentation that explains how the two communities are different using this as your introduction: "We have been asked to compare the culture of the communities of Rumford and Cape Elizabeth. To do this, we have broken culture down into different sub-categories called the elements of deep culture. We will compare both communities using 5 of these elements giving examples from each community." The presentations will be done by cold call and you could be called multiple times.

Stranger Activity
We'll be finding quotes from Part 2, Chapter 5 that support the existential themes.

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.

Split Activities: Careers Work and Surveying Norway
Careers Work
Work

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

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.