TOK I (Class of 2023)

  Central Knowledge Questions: What relationship exists between our sense of the past and the object world which surrounds us? How do we use objects to organize our understanding of the past? Agenda: Check in: TOK Exhibition Highs & Lows Intro to standing blog assignment: "TOKIRL" Shared Reading: Radley, "Artifacts, Memory, and a Sense of the Past" Ongoing Concerns: First TOKIRL Blog Due 2/20 CAS Day on Wednesday TOK Exhibition 1-on-1 conferences start Wednesday: Chosen Question 3 objects and tentative claims brainstorming/expanded thinking on your objects

  Aims & Objectives develop an awareness of how individuals and communities construct knowledge and how this is critically examined develop an interest in the diversity and richness of cultural perspectives and an awareness of personal and ideological assumptions examine how academic disciplines/areas of knowledge generate and shape knowledge Essential Questions: How do historians construct knowledge?  How do we decide what counts as history? Agenda ( Google Slides ): Opening Inquiry: King Tut's Sarcophagus Definitions and Conceptions of History Revising the Curriculum Activity & Discussion Homework: CAS Reflection due Sunday

  Because we had so many missing today, we decided to have a brain break. Remember that your EE Workshop 3 is due on Sunday!

  " King of the Trash Hill ," by Alan Levine ( CC BY 2.0 ) Aims & Objectives develop an awareness of how individuals and communities construct knowledge and how this is critically examined develop an interest in the diversity and richness of cultural perspectives and an awareness of personal and ideological assumptions examine how academic disciplines/areas of knowledge generate and shape knowledge Essential Questions: How do historians construct knowledge?  How do we decide what counts as history? Agenda: Warmup Question: History & Memory History Defined TEDTalk: Laura Maiklem, Trash or Historical Artifact Ongoing Concerns: Keep Gathering and Reading for EE.  We will have a workday Friday--Workshop 3 Due SUNDAY NIGHT.

  Aims & Objectives make connections between a critical approach to the construction of knowledge, the academic disciplines and the wider world examine how academic disciplines/areas of knowledge generate and shape knowledge understand the roles played by ways of knowing in the construction of shared and personal knowledge Central Knowledge Questions How do historians construct knowledge of the past? What role do culturally consecrated icons, images, and symbols play in our thinking about history? Agenda Intro to History as an AOK Draw History Homework & Upcoming EE Workshop 3: by 1/28 (See assignment in GClassroom)

  Extended Essay An Introduction to the Research Process Brewer's Research Process: A Case Study The "So What?": Creating statements of purpose (adapted from  Booth et. al.,  The Craft of Research ,  Chapter 3) Step one: Name your topic I am studying _______ I am looking into _____ I am focusing on _______ Step 2: Add an indirect question because I want to find out who/what/when/where/whether/how/why ______ Step 3: Answer "So What?" by motivating your question in order to help my readers understand how/why/whether ______. Homework: EE Workshop 3: by 1/28 Begin reading for your EE.  Use the Resources on the EE Guide website to take your research BEYOND Google. Take good notes (including bibliographic information) Have at least 5 sources that you feel are valuable (You may have already read them, or be in the process of working through them). Work toward a Statement of Purpose (See above) that you are proud of. Be ready to share these also in class. Submit on Goog