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Agenda 1. Watch the video clip above-- this is one of the main ideas of Utilitarianism. 2. Review this week's reading assignments (tell your friend what pages you need to read by tomorrow and Thursdsay) 3. Moral Philosophies Power Point presentation + Moral Philosophy Note-Taking Form to prepare for next week's exam (covering the slides on Why study it + Utilitarianism and Libertarianism) 4. Go over the Morality and Politics of Justice project overview 5. Time to read chapter 2, required pages and/or revise your Crash seminar essay
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Understand, in broad terms, what the study of moral philosophy is Starter: The Afghan Goatherds Moral Dilemma (Link to 60 minutes coverage) From Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do by Michael Sandel In June 2005, a special forces team made up of Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell and three other U.S. Navy SEALs set out on secret reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border in search of a Taliban leader...their target commanded 140 to 150 heavily armed fighters and was staying in a village in the forbidding mountainous region. Shortly after the...team took up a position on a mountain ridge overlooking the village, two Afghan farmers with about a hundred bleating goats happened upon them. With them was a boy about 14 years old. The Afghans were unarmed. Their choices were to let them go, thus potentially compromising their mission if the Afghans were to inform the Taliban of their location OR kill them. They didn't have any rope, so tying them up while they found a new hideout was out of the question. QUESTION: What are the justifications for both options and what do you think they are morally obligated to do? Announcements - Thursday seminar groups-- check your email for my feedback - Return TNTSJ by the end of class-- take out the sticky notes and initial next to your name - Be sure to get a copy of Justice from me if you weren't here yesterday Agenda: 1. Homework review and announcements 2. Introduction to Moral Philosophy power point 3. Pass back Crash Seminar Essays plus go over Revision Guidelines:
4. Group 3 Seminar Non-seminar groups: Time to read assignment for Monday Read pages: 1-10 (to "What Wounds Deserve the Purple Heart?" 12-16 (starting at "Bailout Outrage") 19-21 (ending at "Runaway Trolley") 24-30 (starting at "The Afghan Goatherds") Goal: Deconstruct Thoreau's ideas and the role of the individual in creating a just society
Term of the Day: "Transhumanism" (From Wikipedia)Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance humanintellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.[1] Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics of developing and using such technologies.[2]They speculate that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label "posthuman".[1] Starter:
Agenda 1. Introduction to Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
2. Seminar Groups 1 and 2 Today Non-Seminar Work Time Options:
1-10 (to "What Wounds Deserve the Purple Heart?" 12-16 (starting at "Bailout Outrage") 19-21 (ending at "Runaway Trolley") 24-30 (starting at "The Afghan Goatherds") Today's Handouts  Positive Thoughts from Petey the Positive Parrot:
Ashley is just delighted by how awesome all of your group seminar prep BIG questions were! They are more thought-provoking than any of the discussion question guides I've seen out there on the internet designed by retired English teachers with 12 cats. Not that there is anything wrong with retired English teachers with 12 cats. Ashley might become one someday. (A retired English teacher, that is, not a cat. Just to clarify.) Today's Goals: Analyze Thoreau's views on civil disobedience and what he believes the role of an individual is in creating a just society Starter: Review "Civil Disobedience":
Agenda 1. Small group discussion
2. Whole class discussion:
3. SEMINAR GUIDELINES
4. Work time
1. Create an account on collegeboard.org
2. Take a look at the SAT practice test and fill in the bubbles with your name!
Scoring The SAT is comprised of three sections (Critical Reading, Writing and Math); each earns a maximum of 800 points for a combined total of 2400 points * YOU ARE PENALIZED FOR INCORRECT RESPONSES (25% off per question wrong) 3. Review the SAT Essay Scoring guide (p. 73) Essay writing techniques:
4. Choose 2 essays to evaluate (i.e. Score 6 and Score 4)
Things to consider... - GUESS on the ACT (you are not penalized for incorrect answers) - SAT: If you don't know an answer, determine if you can narrow it down to a 50/50. If you can, it may be prudent to guess. If not, don't guess, just leave blank, as you are penalized for wrong answers on the SAT. Additional Test Prep Resources (ACT and SAT) www.collegeboard.com 5. If extra time remains, do one of the following:
Goals: Understand Thoreau's philosophy on civil disobedience and transcendentalism Essential Question: What is the individual's role in creating a just society? Starter:
Agenda 1. Review the play 2. Go over this week's schedule 3. Silently read Act 2 + Annotate
4. Themes/Binaries mini-lesson (short powerpoint) 5. Group selection + group role 6. Group Seminar Prep + complete short survey below when done HOMEWORK: By Tuesday: Finish the pla By Wednesday: Read selected excerpts from Civil Disobedience by Thoreau. Annotate it as you read as our seminar will involve this reading. I need to see evidence of annotations as part of your ticket into seminar! This can be questions/comments written in the margins and underlined or highlighted portions you find important.  Goals:
Understand Thoreau's philosophy on civil disobedience and transcendentalism Essential Question: What is the individual's role in creating a just society? STARTER Trolley Car Dilemma Case #1 (Suppose you are the driver of a trolley car and your trolley car is hurtling down the track at 60 mph. At the end of the track, you notice 5 workers working on the track. You try to stop but you can’t because your brakes don’t work. You panic because you know, for sure, that if you crash into these workers, all 5 will die. You feel helpless until you notice that off to the right is a side track and at the end of that track is just one worker working. Your steering works so you know that if you turn right, you could avoid killing the five workers but certainly kill the one at the end of the track. What would you do? Go straight ahead or turn right? These are the ONLY two choices. Defend your reason. (The trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics, first introduced by Philippa Foot in 1967) Agenda 1. Discuss Trolley Car Dilemma Case #1 and consider case #2 Trolley Car Case #2 This time you are not the driver, you are an onlooker standing on a bridge overlooking the track. Down the track comes the trolley car, same situation is at hand. Except, now, you’re not the driver and you REALLY feel helpless until you notice, standing next to you, leaning over the bridge, is a very large man. And you could give him a slight shove and he would fall over the bridge, onto the track, right in the way of the trolley car, he would die, but he would spare the five. Now. How would you push the large man? Explain. 2. Read to Act 2 (FINISH THE PLAY BY TUESDAY!!) 3. Act out 58-63, 67 4. Discussion
5. Appreciations Homework: Get caught up in the play. You'll need to be finished with the play by TUESDAY. We'll have time to read in class on Monday but if you are a more relaxed reader, you might want to spend some time reading this weekend. Starter:
ANNOUNCEMENT: If you volunteered to jump in on Marley's Crash seminar tomorrow, don't forget to show up, 7th period. Agenda 1. Review the readings and share your historical thinking skills chart notes with a partner. What questions do you have about the readings? 2. Whole class discussion to deconstruct the readings
3. Ashley's ppt on Transcendentalism 4. Time to read TNTSJ through page 45 5. Act out pages 24-29, 33-38
HOMEWORK: Get caught up in the play! Be through page 45 by tomorrow Starter
POP QUIZ! Agenda 1. Introduction to the play:
2. Assign student roles and Read pp 3-14 aloud 3. Go over the Annotation instructions for TNTSJ 4. Silently read and annotate pages 14-40
Big Questions o What is the individual’s role in creating a just society? o What is Civil Disobedience? o What did Thoreau believe in and was he justified in his actions? Do you agree with his beliefs and actions? Starter
Announcements
Agenda 1. Return from a long weekend pep talk! + Video: Jose or Joe- Who gets the job? (Thanks to Mila for sharing!) 2. Announcements 3. Discuss your starter responses and then Review Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (What distinguishes between a just and unjust law?)
4. Respond to this quote from the first page of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away" 5. Ashley's PPT introduction of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail 6. Go over the homework for Thursday and time to read Mexican American War primary source documents Homework: All students: 1. Read the two primary source documents on the Mexican-American War and complete the Historical Thinking Skills chart by THURSDAY at the beginning of class. I'd recommend annotating these articles as well as you will use these in our final seminar on TNTSJ next week.
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