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

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