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include component="tagCloud" toc ** 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 does Nietzsche's "On the Way of the Creator" present an optimistic view of the word? =Do Now= How are people who fly on airplanes optimists? =Class Activity= Students should discuss the meaning of the 1st page of the reading "On the Way of the Creator" and then write a brief defense of how Zarathrustra is an optimist or or a pessimist. =Closing= Exit ticket is the brief defense. = Absence Make Up = In order to make up missed material, students need to do the following in their notebooks:

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