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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= What is the concept of the other? =Do Now= What do you think about when you see yourself in a video or a picture? What do you see that you don't see in a mirror?

=Mini-Lesson= **The Other -** when one experiences someone else, and this Other person experiences the world (the same world that a person experiences), only from "over there", the world itself is constituted as objective in that it is something that is "there" as identical for both of the subjects. **The Look -** is the anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed by 'the other'. =Class Activity= **Round 1 -** Sharing of the Do Now **Round 2 -** Review of previous existentialist tenets. **Round 3 -** How does "the other" help us to verify the tangible world? **Round 4 -** Can you think of a time when you became aware of "the look"? How did it make you feel? **Round 5 -** How do we utilize the concepts of "the other" & "the look" to help us "create our essence"? =Closing= **Reflection -** Do you think that other people's opinions of us should impact our decisions? Why or why not? = 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) Read the mini-lesson.
 * 3) Review the previous existentialist tenets discussed last week & this week.
 * 4) Answer the questions in Rounds 3-5.
 * 5) Complete the closing reflection.

= Lesson Plan =

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