Thursday, February 27, 2020

Thursday, February 27th

TURN IN PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT AND PROJECT PROPOSAL TO ME!!!

PROJECT TUNE CRITIQUE



WORK TIME

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Tuesday, February 25th


Project Examples:
Dana’s project:  “Cuida

Jessica's Project "Whichever Road Taken"
(with Intertextuality Annotated!)

Continue Work Time and Conferences!!!
Philosophy Statement and Project Proposal (due Thursday for Critique/Tune)

HONORS: Cat's Cradle Seminar next Wednesday March 4th

Monday, February 24, 2020

Monday, February 24th

THIS WEEK: Project Work Time and Conferences
Everyone will conference with me by next Tuesday about their classwork/grade as well as project ideas.

The Project!


Student Examples:
Max J.jpg
MAX POEM (goes with above visual)






(DUE THURSDAY, FEB 27th for Critique/Tune)

TIPS:
1. Read your entire comp book to discern your emerging themes and beliefs. Entire chunks of your philosophy statement might already be lurking in there!
2. You DO NOT have to just pick a philosophy to espouse. Articulate your principles from a place of personal authenticity, which might be a hybrid of multiple philosophical expressions. This might include a degree of uncertainty, and that is OK!
3. Write your philosophy statement BEFORE you devise a project idea.
4. Identify your intertextual connections within the philosophy statement. This will help you to be thoughtful about how you are incorporating your references into the actual project.
5. Look at these student examples for guidance:

Friday, February 21, 2020

Friday, February 21st

Philosophize:   Are religion and science compatible?  Can they work together to illuminate meaning in our lives?  Or do they contradict each other?



Starter 2.21 :  Response to NOMA and the “Skeptic”:
React to the idea of “Non-overlapping Magisteria” and/or Michael Shermer’s article.  Identify a specific passage in the article and agree or disagree with it. 


Stephen Jay Gould's "NOMA" Non-overlapping Magisteria
Read Gould's original article (linked) for more depth of information!
Non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA) is the view advocated by Stephen Jay Gould that science and religion each represent different areas of inquiry, fact vs. values, so there is a difference between the "nets" [1] over which they have "a legitimate magisterium, or domain of teaching authority," and the two domains do not overlap.[2] He suggests, with examples, that "NOMA enjoys strong and fully explicit support, even from the primary cultural stereotypes of hard-line traditionalism" and that it is "a sound position of general consensus, established by long struggle among people of goodwill in both magisteria."[1] Still, there continues to be disagreement over where the boundaries between the two magisteria should be.[3]
Quote from Gould:  "Our failure to discern a universal good does not record any lack of insight or ingenuity, but merely demonstrates that nature contains no moral messages framed in human terms. Morality is a subject for philosophers, theologians, students of the humanities, indeed for all thinking people. The answers will not be read passively from nature; they do not, and cannot, arise from the data of science. The factual state of the world does not teach us how we, with our powers for good and evil, should alter or preserve it in the most ethical manner"


The Scientific World View:
  What Makes Us Human?

Watch Rick Warren's TED Talk"A Life of Purpose"
  • How does his faith give him purpose?
  • Are his arguments convincing?
  • ven if you are not religious, what can we learn from his example?

4 corners
Religion and science are inherently incompatible.
A religious worldview gives life more meaning than a scientific worldview.

Journal 2.21:  Reflect on today's deconstruction.
How do religion and other forms of spirituality give meaning and purpose to human life?  How does science? Can the two work together to illuminate meaning or do they contradict each other?  Which gives your life more meaning?

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Thursday, February 20th

Much gratitude to Laci, for teaching us today.  Take it in, kids.


If there is extra time:
4 corners
Religion and science are inherently incompatible.
A religious worldview gives life more meaning than a scientific worldview.




Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Wednesday, February 19th

VERBAL STARTER: Revisit Art
SHARE OUT IDEAS ABOUT "The Creation"
What claims could we make about its meaning?


Vonnegut, "Yes, We Have no Nirvanas


DISCUSS
What is Kurt Vonnegut's take on Transcendental Meditation?  What is his tone? What is his message?

WHITEBOARDS  
Make an interpretive claim about the author’s intention.  SHARE



MEET the Maharishi…
What do you think of the idea of Transcendental Meditation?

JOURNAL 2.18: What were the results?  Did the quiz tell you what you already knew?  Did it surprise you at all?

For tomorrow (page 35 in your reader)

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Thursday, February 13th

How did yesterday go?  Yes, you may all have an extension on film paragraph due to internet issues!  Who might want to share their claim itself? Feel free to revise it for sophistication!



New questions for our study….
  • How do religion and other forms of spirituality give meaning and purpose to human life?
  • How does science deal with life’s great mysteries?
  • Are religion and science compatible or at odds?


"Starter": What is the difference between religion and spirituality? 
In pairs:  Come up with a short list of phrases, words, sentences, quotes that you associate with each word:  RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY
DISCUSS DIFFERENCES AND INTERSECTIONS


"The Creation" by Eduardo Galeano
1. Illustrate the passage.
2. Make an interpretive claim about the passage
3.  Discuss:  What questions is Galeano answering?  How does this passage relate to the questions of the week?


HONORS: Check out Cat's Cradle if you haven't yet! Book Club seminar on March 4th

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Wednesday, February 12th

Into the Wild film

Intertextual Claim Response Assignment
(See page 2 of this document for possible prompts and example claims)

Here is the example I spoke of, where the student analyzed the meaning of the belt.  Please don't copy her, but feel free to make an unconventional claim such as this.  Notice the sophistication of the claim itself!

For your reference:  Mini-workshop on interpretive claims 


Soundtrack Resources

Lyrics from the soundtrack

See Genius as well:

Society

Guaranteed


Google Film Criticism on this movie? If you do this, CITE the source!

HOMEWORK? When you finish your paragraph, read Yes, We Have no Nirvanas” by Kurt Vonnegut, located on pages 37-43 in your reader. This is homework if you don't get to it!


Tuesday, February 11th

Let's see how other artists add layers of meaning to Chris McCandless's story! 




Into the Wild Film Response (due at the end of class tomorrow)

Monday, February 10th

Welcome, Janae!

Please turn in your Into the Wild reflection/synthesis assignment by midnight tonight!

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Thursday, February 6th

Final Lit Circle Meeting:  NEW GROUPS



When you finish with your group meeting, you can have time to work on the Reflection/Synthesis assignment.  On Page 2 on this doc.  

DUE AT MIDNIGHT ON MONDAY February 10!!!

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Wednesday, February 5th

FOUR CORNERS
  • Striving for material success gets in the way of a spiritual quest for truth.
  • Chris McCandless was on a transcendental odyssey.


Read Osprey Keiran Eagen’s intertextual email exchange with Nick Jans
*Note: Nick Jans is the author in Chapter 8 (p.71-72) who criticized Chris and Krakauer’s coverage of him.


JOURNAL 2.5: CHRIS AS TRANSCENDENTALIST?
Reader Response: Do you agree with Keiran or with Nick Jans? Was Chris McCandless less competent than a boy scout? Or was he on a transcendental path that is worthy of our study?


GET READY FOR TOMORROW’s FINAL LIT CIRCLE!

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Tuesday, February, 4th

Starter 2.4: Write a haiku that attempts to capture one "thought snapshot" of your personal relationship with nature and/or another philosophical perspective. 


Haiku mini-lesson:
5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables
Traditionally contains a kigo, a reference to the season it is set in (FEEL FREE TO BREAK THIS RULE!)


Maybe next lifetime
I could be a butterfly 
Who glides through this fog 

'Tis freezing outside
Too frigid for transcendence?
Nature Walk postponed:(



WORK TIME

Monday, February 3, 2020

Monday, February 3rd


Who went forest bathing this weekend?


Discuss:
What are our takeaways from the forest bathing article and the lit circle questions? What are humans getting out of their time in nature?  How might our culture impact our personal relationships with nature? How does this play out with Chris?




Reading Assignment: Excerpts from Walden

JOURNAL 2.3 Thoughts on Transcendentalism How does transcendentalism speak to you personally?  Which pieces resonate and which do you reject? Why? Choose at least one quote from the Thoreau reading OR the Powerpoint lesson and react to it in the context of your response.