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include component="tagCloud" 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 we use contraries to define ideas? =Do Now= How would you describe the color 'green'? =Mini-Lesson= We use contraries when we want to identify something and define it clearly. Let's look at the dictionary definition of the color 'green'. The [|colour] of growing [|foliage], as well as other [|plant] [|cells] containing [|chlorophyll]; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. (wiktionary.com) Now one of the best ways to understanding 'green' is to say what is 'not green'. We can do the same with any idea or concept. So when we say things like the opposite of light is dark, what we are really saying is: the opposite of light is 'not light', because we recognize that there are varying degrees of 'light' and of 'dark'. =Class Activity= Take the concept of contraries to larger ideas such as eternity. What is 'not eternity'? What is 'not universe'? So when we do this exercise, we come to realize that we often brush over ideas with vague words that attempt to define them. For instance terms like 'peace' and 'justice' often hide something that may actually belong to the contrary 'not peace' or 'not justice'. This allows bad reasoning to prevent us from seeing the world as it really exists. =Closing Reflection= Take one idea and reflect on it's contrary. = 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) Describe the two contraries to 'eternity' and 'universe'.
 * 4) How can the contrary of 'justice' help us to identify ways people use bad reasoning to hide contrary ideas.
 * 5) Complete the Closing Reflection.

= Lesson Plan =

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