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