Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

Students do this: 

1) Pass in your Stranger book. Make sure Mr. Burns credits you for the book.
2) Take the poll; here is a link to the live poll.
3) Review the calendar tab above.
4) CHECK THE PORTAL: grades come out soon.

Circle Question:  What amount of money, if any, would you need to take a healthy pet you love to the vet to be put down.

Vocabulary Words


Prep for Beans Essay
1) Brainstorm possible themes;
2) Pick top themes and post on newsprint.
3) Collect scenes in the book that support the themes, describe scene, page number, put on stickies.
4) Place stickies on newsprint.
Next class: write essay.

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).

Today:
Before creating your full school consistent with your chosen philosophies, create:
1) An "out of the box" curriculum;
2) An "out of the box" governance structure;

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)