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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** What is creation? =Do Now= How can anything "new" be created? =Mini-Lesson= On Monday, as we discussed the impossibility of thinking beyond our experience (mental or physical), we ended with the realization that the concept of "existence" or "universe" is impossible to truly define because we can't contemplate "non-existence" or "non-universe". Yet we also saw how something can be created out of nothing: chair. So how did the universe become? How was it created out of nothing? Or was it? =Class Activity= Using the law of discrimination and relativity, we will discuss how creation occurs and what it means to truly create. =Closing= Create something out of nothing. = 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

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