Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

Administrivia:
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Period 5-6 Seating Chart
Period 7-8 Seating Chart

Reading Quiz Montana

Circle: 


Activity: Montana, 1948 -- the Tweets & Reading
Learning Target: At the end of this activity, you will understand be able to take the perspective of a character in the book.
1) Brainstorm character handles.
2) Log onto Tweet form.
3) Read
4) Write

Period 5-6 Tweets
Period 7-8 Tweets

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 it.
1) Read
2) Write one paragraph using the formula learned last week.

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)

Learning Target: By the end of class today, you will be able to explain the philosophy expressed in the Allegory of the Cave.
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Puppet Show
Given some sticks, paper and tape, create a puppet show that tells a story.
Allegory of the Cave
First, we'll watch this video, next we'll break up and read this text.
Finally, we will sketch out the parts of the Allegory to understand them.

The Matrix (Friday)
We will continue on our quest to understand what Plato was saying when he told the story "The Allegory of the Cave" by watching "The Matrix."  Ultimately, and most importantly, we are working on understanding the concept that people either create or discover solutions to all of life's problems based on their understanding of how the world works.  This is what a philosophy is.  From Socrates to our Founding Fathers the point is to understand why having a philosophy matters to you and the world we live in.  Both "The Matrix" and "The Allegory of the Cave" present similar views of how one can understand the world (which are very different from how you see the world now).

FOR LATER
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.

1. To what extent do you shape your own destiny, and how much is down to fate?
2. Does nature shape our personalities more than nurture?
3. Should people care more about doing the right thing, or doing things right?
4. What one piece of advice would you offer to a newborn infant?
5. Where is the line between insanity and creativity?
6. What is true happiness?
7. What things hold you back from doing the things that you really want to?
8. What makes you, you?
9. What is the truth?
10. What is reality?
11. Do you make your own decisions, or let others make them for you?
12. What makes a good friend?
13. Why do people fear losing things that they do not even have yet?
14. Who defines good and evil?
15. What is the difference between living and being alive?
16. Is a “wrong” act okay if nobody ever knows about it?
17. Who decides what morality is?
18. How do you know that your experience of consciousness is the same as other people’s experience of consciousness?
19. What is true strength?
20. What is true love?
21. Is a family still relevant in the modern world?
22. What role does honour play in today’s society?
23. If money cannot buy happiness, can you ever be truly happy with no money?
24. How do you know your perceptions are real?
25. How much control do you have over your life?
26. What is freedom?