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**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 we reason about what we experience? =Do Now= Identify 3 things that ALL humans have in common. =Homework= For Thursday, come to class with an article or story that has two different sets of experience. =Mini-Lesson= A is A; A can never be B This is the basic framework of identity. Like in math, Logic uses variables. A can be anything we choose, but once we've chosen what A is, it can never be something else while we discuss it. If A = tree, A can never be anything else. B = anything else. What we call A is also defined by what A isn't. This helps humans come to agreement on identity. Again using the tree, A can be defined by the elements of a tree: stationary, leaves, branches, trunk, vegetation, roots, height, etc. A can also be defined by what it isn't: animal, mobile, earth, etc. =Class Activity= There are 3 types of reasoning or logic: 1) basic **inference** or **prediction**: If the rock falls when I drop it, then every time I drop the rock it will fall. 2) **induction**: If a rock falls when I drop it, then any rock will drop when I drop it. 3) **Deduction**: If a rock falls when I drop it, then an eraser will drop when I drop it. Let's play with each of these: Let's take our understanding of knowledge. We've seen how knowledge comes from perception. We've also seen how abstraction provides knowledge.  What can we say about Mr. Van Nort that is true of everyone in the room?  What prediction can we make about Mr. Van Nort that will always be true?  What induction can we make about Mr. Van Nort that we can also make about the rest of us?  What deduction can we make about Mr. Van Nort that will be true of other "objects" we perceive? =Closing=   How can you use the three types of logic to help you understand your experience in the world?  = 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) Complete the Do Now.
 * 2) Using yourself as Mr. Van Nort, in the class activity, answer the four questions in the Class Activity based on your family and friends.
 * 3) Complete the closing reflection.

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