First day of School! Thursday, August 27th

This was you right after your mom woke you up this morning, right?

Today's Objectives:

• Evaluate Krishnamurti's philosophy on the purpose of education
  
• Create a class charter that may or may not be inspired by his ideas
  
• Begin to get to know what Ashley's Humanities 11 class is all about
  

Starter #1

1. What do you think the "function" or purpose of education SHOULD be?
   
2. Does Animas achieve your ideal vision? Why or why not?*
   
3. When you're done, make a name tent like Ashley's (keep this through Monday)

*If you are a new student, you may either write about whether what you know about Animas achieve that vision or talk about your former school

Agenda
1. Share your starter response with a partner 

2. Introductions

3. Read and discuss "The Function of Education" by Krishnamurti

• Mark quotes that stand out to you as thought-provoking, interesting, inspiring or with which you strongly disagree.
• Identify the author's thesis: What does Krishnamurti claim the purpose of education is?
• Be prepared to share your selections and explain what the quotes mean to you and why you chose them.

4. Small group discussion 

• Clarify any confusions you have about the reading
• Share your FAVORITE line from the reading
• Discuss what you think the thesis is

5. Whole group discussion and class charter creation

• What questions do you still have about this reading?
• What is the thesis?
• Does Animas create an environment where this is possible? Should we be aspiring to?
• Let's create our class charter! What are the norms we want to uphold in order to create an ideal classroom environment where everyone can learn.

6. Class Charter

• 5 minute free-write:  Come up with as many norms/values and policies as you can that you think leads to the BEST class culture and learning environment. 

• Groups of 4: Chunk/categorize and narrow your lists to come up with the top 5 Norms and top 5 Policies that you think are most important.
• Combined groups: Share out and repeat previous process. You can only keep 5! 
• Share out as whole class: Create class charter.