Day 14 (9/8): Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Agenda:

Blog Assignment: This I Believe

Intro to "This I Believe" Response

Listen to examples

Discuss Assignment

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Read and Discuss Plato's Allegory - Illustrate/annotate the Allegory for understanding
Watch Some Video Adaptations of the Allegory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jmJGBJRlUQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWlUKJIMge4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWOpQXTltA

Homework:

"This I Believe": We will read these aloud to each other on our next Mindful Monday (9/20)
CAS Blog due Sunday - Our next CAS day is Friday!

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Day 66 (3/14): Artifacts, Memory, and a Sense of the Past

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

Day 56 (2/7): Mindful Monday

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

TOK I (Class of 2023)

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