Wednesday, January 8th, 2014

Students do this: 
1) Again, take this homework survey.
2) Take the poll
3) Review the calendar tab above.
4) Honors Biography Essay Instructions: One of the things that it's important for you to get good at is to be able to read a book and then produce a lengthy essay. One of the things you have to get good at making connections. To do this, it takes several steps. The first step will be for us to find 10 quotations in the book and react to each quotation. Your reactions can include why you think it's important, what makes you think of, how it connects to concepts that you have learned, etc. These are due next class and should be titled lastname firstname BioTenQuotes bb78.
5) Check the portal

New Vocab

government
democracy
monarchy
dictatorship
anarchy

economy
socialism
communism
capitalism
barter

Beans Quiz

Circle
-Nicest moment over vacation
-Something important from the reading

Colbert Report

Philosophy Design Challenge
We'll be showing you a bunch of buildings -- you will be working in groups of two to determine what the architect believed based on the building's design. After getting good at this, you will be designing a school based on three of the philosophies you studied before break.  The design must be consistent with the philosophies you picked.  Hear are 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