03mar14+Class

flat **Standards** [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.3] Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.6] Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.9] Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources. =AIM= How do I begin to research my school or philosopher? =Do Now= Describe how you know that you have a hand. = = =Mini-Lesson= Ludwig Wittgenstein was a 20th century philosopher who focused on analytical philosophy, the philosophy of analysis using evidence and comparison. He wrote a book titled //On Certainty//. This book discusses what we can consider certain, if anything. In essence, like the law of Discrimination or Relativity, which states that to know something, we must know what it isn't, certainty requires assumptions. Take an aphorism from the book: "From its //seeming// to me  —or to everyone —to be so, it doesn't follow that it //is// so. What we can ask is whether it can make sense to doubt it." This sets us up for a "certainty" that involves whether we can find a reason to doubt it. Any "doubt" that can be reasonable means that we can't be certain about something. So if we applied it to the discussion we had last week, we can find reasonable doubts about whether "college ready" is definable or "certain". This is the way that I want you to begin to come to an understanding of your chosen school of philosophy. =Class Activity= Using computers, begin to research your school or philosopher. =Closing= **Reflection -** How certain am I that I understand my philosophical school? What else do I need to research? = Absence Make Up = In order to make up missed material, students need to do the following in their notebooks: Go to Previous Class Go to Next Class
 * 1) Try to find one statement or aphorism that the school proposes as a certainty.
 * 2) Write the statement or aphorism onto a google document and make sure you understand every word.
 * 3) Next decide why someone would doubt what the aphorism claims.
 * 4) Write down any conflicts or contradictions that arise from doubting the statement.
 * 5) Next apply the statement to our discussion on education.
 * 6) How would the statement explain or analyze the current education policy of making 100% of children "college ready".
 * 7) Where would the statement conflict with the policy?
 * 8) Where would it agree?
 * 9) What part of the policy is reasonably doubtable?
 * 1) Complete the Do Now.
 * 2) Read the Mini-lesson.
 * 3) Complete the 9 steps in the Class Activity.
 * 4) Complete the closing reflection.
 * 5) Email your answers & share your google doc with mr.vannort@gmail.com

= Lesson Plan =

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