Starter: Write down a focusing question you have about your philosophy project for your peer critique group.
It should get to the heart of the biggest challenge you're experiencing or weakness you see in your project thus far. Examples:
Peer Critique Guidelines
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3rd Period: Philosophy Project WORK TIME (remember, peer critique is tomorrow!)
2. What does authentic mean in the context of this project? 3. What does it mean for a piece of writing and a creative visual to "work together cohesively"? 4. What does it mean when a project is "refined to exhibition standards" 5. What does it mean to "exemplify beautiful work"? 6. What are some ways that you be creatively intertextual in this project? 4th Period: Ty Churchwell with Trout Unlimited- GUEST SPEAKER Starter: Watch this video on the History of Our Public Lands
Class Biz- there's a lot of it, so read carefully!
This Week's Schedule
Agenda 1. Discuss "Bakken Business": Take notes using this discussion guide 2. Project Work Time! STARTER:
Watch this quick video on fracking to provide more context on the "Bakken Business" reading (Here is a more detailed video on the actual fracking procedure for those interested- 7 minutes long) AGENDA 1. Envt Ethics lecture 2. Personal Philosophy Work Time HOMEWORK Read "Bakken Business" for Monday's discussion! Starter: Turn to a neighbor and try to come up with your own definition for what environmental ethics means. What types of issues/questions would the field of environmental ethics cover?
Intro to Energy and Place project
Personal Philosophy Project Worktime
Today's Driving Question: What do you know about climate change? What do you need to know? Starter: Complete page 1 of this document to fill me in on what you know about climate change (10 minutes) Agenda 1. In partners, discuss the graphs above: Interpret the two images above. What does the data reveal at the surface level? What global implications does this data have for future energy policy decisions OR what explanations can you come up with for the data? (5 minutes) 2. Now read THIS ARTICLE and complete page 2 of the document you began for our starter! (15 minutes) 3. Personal Philosophy Work Time! (1 hour and 15 minutes)
CRITIQUE - Find a group of 3-4 students and on the whiteboard, write your critique group members' names. Then, write which day each person will get their project idea critiqued (either today or tomorrow). THEN, get to critiquing using these critique guidelines: CRITIQUE GUIDELINES 1. Get into groups of 3-4 2. Explain your project to the critiquers 3. As a group, discuss the following four prompts:
STARTER: Listen to Gabe read his writing for his personal philosophy project last year, in combination with his painting shown to the left and contemplate the beautiful work represented by his ideas and artwork! TODAY'S GOAL: Hone your Personal Philosophy project idea(s). You must complete the proposal by Wednesday AND have your visual piece IDEA critiqued by a classmate before you begin implementing it. Follow these steps today... Step 1: Review the project proposal guidelines (last page of this document!) Step 2: Continue to brainstorm ideas IF needed (see yesterday's brainstorm free-for-all directions)
Step 3: Begin working on your project proposal
Step 4: CRITIQUE- Find a group of 3-4 students and on the whiteboard, write your critique group members' names. Then, write which day each person will get their project idea critiqued (either today or tomorrow). THEN, get to critiquing using these critique guidelines: CRITIQUE GUIDELINES 1. Get into groups of 3-4 2. Explain your project to the critiquers 3. As a group, discuss the following four prompts:
Step 5: Refine your proposal, Submit, Conference with Ashley!
Step 6: Begin Creating your BEAUTIFUL project!! FINAL MINI-LESSON: Technology and Human Existence
Driving Question: How is your personal philosophy on happiness/meaning/purpose shaping up in the #21st century with the role technology plays in our lives? Watch Sherry Turkle's TED Talk: Connected But Alone During talk, highlight ideas/phrases/words/concepts that stands out to you. Write down at least one question you would like to ask this researcher, or that this talk sparked for you. PAIR SHARE an idea/phrase/word/concept that stood out to you Discuss: What was the thesis of this talk? What, ultimately, is she trying to say about our use of technology? Now Watch a different perspective: "Technology Made Us Humans": 1. Do you agree with the narrator in the Shots of Awe video we watched today that, "Technology is the real skin of our species?" Why or why not? 2. Are there fundamental differences between technological tools like an ax to chop wood and technological devices like smartphones? If so what are those differences especially in terms of the ways the two types of tools shape/help/impact us? FOUR CORNERS
Introduction to the Personal Philosophy Final Project!!!! 1. Review as a whole class the project guidelines for our Personal Philosophy project 2. Rubric critique Dig in to some of the rubric language. With the people near you, answer the following:
3. EXAMPLES
4. REVIEW and BRAINSTORM Step 1: In your starter google doc title this entry "personal philosophy project review" (to start getting the wheels churnin' for your project). Answer the following prompt: What ideas have stood out to you from this project so far that you think resonate with or are influencing the formation of your own personal philosophy of happiness/meaning? Here is a list of the resources/philosophies/concepts we've studied thus far: Readings (these are all hyperlinked even though they aren't all in orange!!)
TED Talks, Podcasts, Media Clips/Films
Step 2: Brainstorm Free-for-All! Here are some options for brainstorm time.... *Remember: BY Wednesday you must complete the project proposal AND get your idea critiqued in class before moving forward with implementation.
Starter:
Read the following quote by the legendary Ed Abbey, then write about a place that holds significance to you and that you find beautiful or find peace within. It could be ANYWHERE! Inside or outside! A corner in your bedroom, or a mountain range. A city alleyway or a highway corridor. Describe it in as much detail as you can and explain why you find it beautiful or why it is significant to you. "This is the most beautiful place on earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A house-boat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near Hoboken waterfront, or even possibly for those of less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio or Rome- there's no limit to the human capacity for homing sentiment" -- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, pages 1-2. AGENDA 1. Intro to Sense of Place powerpoint (15 minutes) + Share out your starter response 2. Discuss "Rediscovery of North America" (30 minutes)
5th Period: Guest Speaker, Greg Cairns, to share his experience at Standing Rock, protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline Additional Standing Rock resources recommended by Greg 1. Viceland's Sacred Water documentary. 2. Unicorn Riot's live feed of the eviction. Greg was filming next to them all day. They were knowledgeable and spoke accurately most of the time. This video is long but shows the eviction in full. 3. Unicorn Riot's video of the post-eviction clean up. Watch 39:00-42:00. Starter
1. Turn in your seminar prep 2. Read over these Personal Philosophy Project guidelines + rubric and jot down any questions you have or spend 10 minutes brainstorming ideas! Agenda 1. Go over the personal philosophy project guidelines and your questions and beginning ideas-- this is meant to get you all thinking in the back of your minds about the project. We'll start brainstorming and drafting next Monday. 2. **While not seminaring, begin reading Rediscovery of North America due for Thursday's class discussion (hardcopies with vocabulary definitions available in class)***** Homework: Read "Rediscovery of North America" for Thursday, beginning of class and come to class with the
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