Administrivia:
Philosophy Unit
Performance Indicators:
-Critique diverse perspectives on historical events (social studies)
-Analyze political structures of diverse cultures (social studies)
-Determine & analyze themes of informational text (English)
Activity: Bill of Rights and you FINISHING
Learning Target: At the end of this activity, you will be able to explain how how the Bill of Rights help guide the making of laws.
1) Last week we watched and heard about a court case involving a student who skipped school and hung a sign up at a parade that said "Bong Hits For Jesus." To day, we will quickly look review the Constitution on which the decision to agree with the school was based.
Link: Constitution
Activity: Introduction to Montana, 1948
Learning Target: At the end of this activity, you will understand the context and setting of the book. Additional, you will have some baseline understanding of what justice is for the types of offenses in the book.
1) Short lecture with notes about the setting of the book.
2) First in your notes, then as a group, determine the what punishment, if any should be given for someone who commits the following action.
-Aiming a loaded gun at someone.
-Shooting a warning shot with a shotgun at people attempting to break into your house.
-Shooting a bird just to kill it.
-Threatening to beat someone up just for the heck of it.
-Killing someone to keep them quiet.
-Raping someone.
-Molesting someone you have power over.
-Saying racist things.
-Secretly listening to conversation you were told not to listen to.
-Farting on the porch and talking about it.
-Protecting a criminal from the courts to avoid embarrassing them.
-Forcing people to vote a certain way.
-Favoring one child over another for no good reason.
Activity: Reading Montana, 1948 then a short writing assignment
Learning Target: At the end of this activity, you will understand the beginning of the book and successfully write a literary analysis paragraph about ti.
1) Read
2) Write one paragraph using the formula learned last week.
Activity: What's your philosophy?
Learning Target: At the end of class, you will be able to explain your philosophy.
Steps
Directions: Pick three questions below that your are you can answer with certainty. For each answer, give an example of when you employed that philosophy.
- To what extent do you shape your own destiny, and how much is down to fate?
- Does nature shape our personalities more than nurture?
- Should people care more about doing the right thing, or doing things right?
- What one piece of advice would you offer to a newborn infant?
- Where is the line between insanity and creativity?
- What is true happiness?
- What things hold you back from doing the things that you really want to?
- What makes you, you?
- What is the truth?
- What is reality?
- Do you make your own decisions, or let others make them for you?
- What makes a good friend?
- Why do people fear losing things that they do not even have yet?
- Who defines good and evil?
- What is the difference between living and being alive?
- Is a “wrong” act okay if nobody ever knows about it?
- Who decides what morality is?
- How do you know that your experience of consciousness is the same as other people’s experience of consciousness?
- What is true strength?
- What is true love?
- Is a family still relevant in the modern world?
- What role does honour play in today’s society?
- If money cannot buy happiness, can you ever be truly happy with no money?
- How do you know your perceptions are real?
- How much control do you have over your life?
- What is freedom?
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