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Day 56 (2/7): Mindful Monday

 

Central Knowledge Questions:

  1. What relationship exists between our sense of the past and the object world which surrounds us?
  2. 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

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