Day 18, 20, 22, 23, 24: There is no escape!

Let's debate!

Zoe squared: Monday

Matt, Maddie: Monday

Zack: Wednesday

Taylor, Lindsay, Allie: Wednesday

Aria, Sam, Kiera, Kayla: Friday

Samantha: Friday

Alfred, Breanna:  document  Monday (March 9)

Cailen, Celine, Katie (Monday March 9)
Andrew, Jake (Tuesday March 10)

Day 16 & 17: Rightness or Wrongness

Circle: How do you determine 

the RIGHTNESS or WRONGNESS of an action?

Reflect ... Share ... Discuss

Name and Respond

Video 1

Was this action RIGHT or WRONG as per your list?  As per you?

Video 2

Was this action RIGHT or WRONG as per your list?  As per you?

Reaction

Justified?

Review your notes.  Which philosopher would agree with the rightness or wrongness of these actions?

Name, provide theory, discuss

Ethics Vocab

Ashley

Was this action RIGHT or WRONG as per your list?  As per you?

Reaction

Justified?

Article

Review your notes.  Which philosopher would agree with the rightness or wrongness of these actions?

Name, provide theory, discuss

Day 13, 14, 15: work periods

WORK PERIODS

Chromebooks in class

Day 12: Yes? No?

Presentation

Project

Student Examples:

on the blog

2011 - April 26, 27, 29 and May 3 

Day 9, 10, 11: Books ....

CIRCLE:
How best can we help people?

Okay ... the reading today may not be like television but it will help solidify some of the ideas we have talked about.
Your tasks:

Handout: read, highlight, make a Cornell note etc
TO HAND IN:

• one statement in the article you agree with
• one statement in the article you disagree with
• one question you still have

Textbook: 

Read, define, make a Cornell note etc pages 249 - 259

TO HAND IN:

For each big question:

• 3 words, with their definition, that you have learned
• main thinker(s) discussed 

Chapter 13: 

Get into groups of three.  Divide the chapter, giving each person in the group one main question to take notes on.

Create a google document, share it with your group AND ME, and take notes.  Here is my suggestion on how you do that.

ex: WHAT IS A GOOD LIFE (p. 263-267)

Philosopher ---------- Main ideas ----------

Day 8: Ethics

1.  Finish the presentation from Day 6

Homework:
Take notes on last part of presentation (Ruth Benedict)

Day 7: The red dot

It's not the dot ... it's the journey to the dot.

Presentation from Monday (continued)

Day 6: Let's get ...

Continue work from yesterday

Working together

Everything is better when someone has your back.

1.  Circle time: establishing norms then discussion.  Tell me one thing that every person is the world should have a right to.

2.  From what you just heard, did any one idea strike you as very true?  Any you had not considered?

3.  Ethics intro handout: read and complete the following

Write 1 statement about something you agree with in the document

Write 1 statement about something you disagree with in the document

Write 1 question you have of the document

Ethics Vocabulary

Small group discussions

4.  Intro presentation

Day 4: Remember the lightbulb?

1.  We ended with Descartes yesterday ... so let's start with him today!  DESCARTES
2.  Complete Day 1 and Day 2
3.  ''Oh my ....''
4.  Define reality for you, in your notes.
5.  Introduction to PLATO
6.  Allegory of the Cave PDF   Video     Better Video      Potential Best Video
7.  In your notes: Write 3 perceptions you have.
ex: My friend is smarter than I am.
Write a potential reality.
ex: Her mom wrote her English paper for her.
8.  Discuss.

Day 3: WOW

This is me after class yesterday:

Now let's finish day 1 and day 2 work!

Day 2: OMGOODNESS!

1.

What a FANTASTIC class yesterday!  We are a WINNING TEAM!!!

1.  Logical thought:

After a local bungled heist, five suspects were being interviewed by the police.

Eventually the police managed to get a confession.

Below is a summary of their statements and it turns out that exactly 5 of these statements were true.

Would you make a good detective, try and work out who committed the crime?

Adrian said:
It wasn't Barry
It was Cedric

Barry said:
It wasn't Adrian
It was Derek

Cedric said:
It wasn't Derek
It wasn't Barry

Derek said:
It wasn't Eric
It was Adrian

Eric said:
It wasn't Cedric
It was Derek

2.  What about me?  Getting to understand the philosopher in you.

What we say about ourselves:
imagination, critical thinker (challenging ideas, your own and others), logical, flexibility, decisive vs. indecisive, open-mindedness, theorize, ability to debate, creativity, confident, the ability to explain, ability to defend ideas, being observant, purpose, integrity (having morals, honesty), impartial, think outside the box, 

3.  Main question: Are humans by nature good or evil? Think-Pair-Share ... discussion
4.  Can we be right or wrong?  Can we be good and evil or good or evil? Tony
5.  Does it matter?
6.  Intro # 4 and 6 from yesterday

Day 1: Welcome!!!

Hello all!
This is ME and how happy I am that you have chosen this class!

PRE-CLASS Questionnaire

1.  Why study philosophy?
2.  How would you eat soup with a fork?
How would you listen to music if the stereo was stolen from your car?
What could you use to support a falling down bookshelf?
How could you get rid of rain if your wipers don't work?
3.  Why you need to think differently in order to achieve.
4.  An introduction
5.  One of the many philosophers we will study.  Welcome ARISTOTLE!
6.  How philosophy can save your life: one man's story.

COURSE OUTLINE