SIT WITH YOUR GROUPS!!
Lit Circle Meeting Protocol
Lit Circle Groups
Synthesis Discussion: Thoreau and Lit Circle Questions
Intertextuality: What counts as a text?
JOURNAL 2.9:
Read this article from Outside Magazine
Optional: Watch this video
React to the content of the article and relate it to some of the themes we have been studying.
-OR-
Tell a story about an experience that you had in nature that had healing powers.
READING TIME: Into the Wild or Cat's Cradle
Monday, February 8, 2016
Starter 2.8: Belief Quiz Did the quiz tell you what you already knew? Did it surprise you at all?
Literature Circle Meeting #1
Lit Circle Groups
Lit Circle Guidelines
Lit Circle Meeting Protocol
Jessica Prompts for Meeting #1
EXPLORE THE INTERTEXTUAL CONNECTIONS
Read: Excerpts from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
JOURNAL 2.8: Response to Walden
1. Describe Thoreau's philosophical position on human beings and their relationship with nature/wildness. How does he contrast it with man's "civilized" state? Use quotes from reading to explain your answer.
2. What connections do you see with Chris McCandless? Identify at least one quote from Thoreau that you believe Chris would have embraced and explain your connection.
3. What is your personal reaction? Do you agree with Thoreau that "the so-called comforts of life" are "positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind"? Can we be our authentic selves while enjoying our detailed lives full of modern conveniences? Or must we connect to our own wildness and natural state?
Literature Circle Meeting #1
Lit Circle Groups
Lit Circle Guidelines
Lit Circle Meeting Protocol
Jessica Prompts for Meeting #1
- Why do you think Chris (Alex) is yearning so strongly for this Alaskan adventure?
- How is Into the Wild an “intertextual” work? How does its intertextuality aid us in interpreting the meaning?
EXPLORE THE INTERTEXTUAL CONNECTIONS
Read: Excerpts from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
JOURNAL 2.8: Response to Walden
1. Describe Thoreau's philosophical position on human beings and their relationship with nature/wildness. How does he contrast it with man's "civilized" state? Use quotes from reading to explain your answer.
2. What connections do you see with Chris McCandless? Identify at least one quote from Thoreau that you believe Chris would have embraced and explain your connection.
3. What is your personal reaction? Do you agree with Thoreau that "the so-called comforts of life" are "positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind"? Can we be our authentic selves while enjoying our detailed lives full of modern conveniences? Or must we connect to our own wildness and natural state?
Friday, February 5, 2016
Meditation Station: Welcome, Penny Stahl!!!
JOURNAL 2.5: Reflect on meditiation experience today. How did it go for you?
Into the Wild Lit Circle Guidelines
TO DO LIST
1. Finish JOURNAL 2.4: Thoughts on Trancendentalism
2. JOURNAL 2.5: Reflect on your experience meditating
3. Reading Time, Into the Wild
JOURNAL 2.5: Reflect on meditiation experience today. How did it go for you?
Into the Wild Lit Circle Guidelines
TO DO LIST
1. Finish JOURNAL 2.4: Thoughts on Trancendentalism
2. JOURNAL 2.5: Reflect on your experience meditating
3. Reading Time, Into the Wild
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Starter 2.4:
a. What do you think of the idea of Transcendental Meditation?
b. What is Kurt Vonnegut's take on it? Make an interpretive claim.
Meet Maharishi:)
Discuss claims and the evidence you see in the text to support them.
Lesson: Transcendentalism
In partners, identify the philosophical tenets in these Transcendentalist thoughts
JOURNAL 2.4 Thoughts on Transcendentalism: How does transcendentalism speak to you personally? Which pieces resonate and which do you reject? Why?
Into the Wild!
Sign out Into the Wild
Literature Circle guidelines: 1st meeting Monday
Start reading!
Honors: Keep reading Cat's Cradle as well! Meeting next Thursday to discuss themes and clarify plot.
a. What do you think of the idea of Transcendental Meditation?
b. What is Kurt Vonnegut's take on it? Make an interpretive claim.
Meet Maharishi:)
Discuss claims and the evidence you see in the text to support them.
Lesson: Transcendentalism
In partners, identify the philosophical tenets in these Transcendentalist thoughts
JOURNAL 2.4 Thoughts on Transcendentalism: How does transcendentalism speak to you personally? Which pieces resonate and which do you reject? Why?
Into the Wild!
Sign out Into the Wild
Literature Circle guidelines: 1st meeting Monday
Start reading!
Honors: Keep reading Cat's Cradle as well! Meeting next Thursday to discuss themes and clarify plot.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Starter 2.3: Synthesize the content of yesterday's film. What did you find striking, interesting, disturbing, questionable? What do you think about the bigger question the film is asking?
Announcements
Into the Wild for tomorrow!
Anyone want to publish rhetorical piece in the Quill?
TED TALK EXPLORATION: Are You There God? Playlist
Explore 2-3 different talks (depending on length)
IN COMP BOOKS, for each talk:
Announcements
Into the Wild for tomorrow!
Anyone want to publish rhetorical piece in the Quill?
TED TALK EXPLORATION: Are You There God? Playlist
Explore 2-3 different talks (depending on length)
IN COMP BOOKS, for each talk:
1. Briefly summarize the main points of the talk.
2. REACT What stood out to you about this talk? Did you agree or disagree? Why?
(A-ha; Say What?; I wonder...)
SHARE OUT: Speed dating
If you watched the same talk, discuss how you felt about it.
If you watched different ones, summarize and share take-aways.
What is the difference between religion and spirituality?
Come up with 1-2 phrases, words, sentences, quotes that you associate with each word: RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY
Chalk talk.
Read Vonnegut, "Yes, We Have no Nirvanas" for tomorrow
(Homework if you don't finish in class)
2. REACT What stood out to you about this talk? Did you agree or disagree? Why?
(A-ha; Say What?; I wonder...)
SHARE OUT: Speed dating
If you watched the same talk, discuss how you felt about it.
If you watched different ones, summarize and share take-aways.
What is the difference between religion and spirituality?
Come up with 1-2 phrases, words, sentences, quotes that you associate with each word: RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY
Chalk talk.
Read Vonnegut, "Yes, We Have no Nirvanas" for tomorrow
(Homework if you don't finish in class)
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Starter 2.2 Thoughts on Religion and Science
Philosophize: Are religion and science compatible? Can they work together to illuminate meaning in our lives? Or do they contradict each other?
In groups, make a T-chart.
SHARE OUT.
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"
READ: The Meaning of Life in a Formula
ADD SOME THOUGHTS TO YOUR STARTER. REFER TO SPECIFICS IN THE ARTICLE. AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH AUTHOR?
Historical Context of the Religion/Science Struggle: BBC Documentary: The End of God? A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion
Philosophize: Are religion and science compatible? Can they work together to illuminate meaning in our lives? Or do they contradict each other?
In groups, make a T-chart.
Commonalities between Religion and Science
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Areas where you see tension between them
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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"
READ: The Meaning of Life in a Formula
ADD SOME THOUGHTS TO YOUR STARTER. REFER TO SPECIFICS IN THE ARTICLE. AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH AUTHOR?
Historical Context of the Religion/Science Struggle: BBC Documentary: The End of God? A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion
- Take notes on the film. Note major events in the historical ideological struggle between religion and science. Jot down questions. Think about where are now in this struggle as a species and where you are as an individual
Monday, February 1, 2016
Starter 2.1: What are your initial thoughts on the first Question of the Week?
Questions for the Week
"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?
Watch Rick Warren's TED Talk"A Life of Purpose"
Synthesize "The Meaning of Life" reading. If you have not read it yet, please do so and answer the following questions in your comp book. If you have read it, just answer the questions.
1. What are the two points of view the author presents about how we can deal with the question of the meaning of life? Which do you agree with more?
2. What criteria generally seem to lead to a happy life?
3. How/Why does religion help people answer the questions of our existence?
4. What new ideas does this reading give you about the meaning of life?
IN YOUR COMP BOOK: Add more to your starter after the thinking you did today. What role does religion play in human life?
OPTIONAL HOMEWORK
Honors Book Club: Sign out Cat's Cradle!
Questions for the Week
- How do religion and other forms of spirituality give meaning and purpose to human life?
- How does science?
- Are religion and science compatible or at odds?
"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?
Watch Rick Warren's TED Talk"A Life of Purpose"
- How does his faith give him purpose?
- Are his arguments convincing?
- Even if you are not religious, what can we learn from his example?
Synthesize "The Meaning of Life" reading. If you have not read it yet, please do so and answer the following questions in your comp book. If you have read it, just answer the questions.
1. What are the two points of view the author presents about how we can deal with the question of the meaning of life? Which do you agree with more?
2. What criteria generally seem to lead to a happy life?
3. How/Why does religion help people answer the questions of our existence?
4. What new ideas does this reading give you about the meaning of life?
IN YOUR COMP BOOK: Add more to your starter after the thinking you did today. What role does religion play in human life?
OPTIONAL HOMEWORK
Honors Book Club: Sign out Cat's Cradle!
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