Monday, January 13, 2014

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014


Students do this: 
1) Again, please, take this homework survey.
2) Take the poll
3) Review the calendar tab above.
3A) CHECK THE PORTAL: weekly writing grades are in.
4) Honors Biography Essay is due Friday (it counts as your weekly essay): name it -- firstname lastname BiographyEssay BB78.
5) Mr. Burns examples of possible thesis statements for his essay:
    --Photography is not about capturing reality, it’s about capturing perception.
    --Photography offers several lessons that make life better.
6) Download this form for the Beans work.

Circle Question:  If you could get $10000 and keep it for yourself, or get $100,000 and give it away anonymously, which would you take?

Vocabulary Words
paradigm
paradigm shift

Beans Quiz

Every Word Matters
In the table provided in the document you downloaded above, you will be reading a section from the Beans of Egypt, Maine closely to determine the meaning behind the text.  After completing, find section from the book that you think is significant. Further instructions will follow.

Bean Soup
Direction in class.

Design a school challenge
Using your knowledge of philosophy and architecture you will be designing a school.  You challenge is to design a completely new kind of school that you believe will effective in teaching students to excel in the modern world.  The school must teach kids to:
--solve problems;
--be resilient and have grit;
--take care of themselves and others;
--be a nice person.

You will be designing:
--a curriculum(what is taught and how its taught); 
--a building to house the students and faculty and; 
--the rules for the school(what teachers and students can and cannot do and a description of the organizational structure of the administration and/or students).

BUT the challenge is to put together this school so that it is consistent and modeled after three of the philosophies below. Your decisions must be defendable and pass the straight face test.
Taoism (91)
Existentialism (your notes)
Confucianism (90)
Thomas Hobbes (456)
John Locke (456)
Rousseau (458)
Life of Jesus (144 non-theistic beliefs only)
Message of Islam (257 non-theistic beliefs only)
Plato & Aristotle (118)
Humanism (346)





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