Monday, February 8th

Starter 16:  What are your initial thoughts on the first Question of the Week?
Driving Questions for the Week

• How do religion and other forms of spirituality give meaning and purpose to human life?
• How does science?
• Are religion and science compatible or at odds?

Class Biz

• Honors Book club seminar tomorrow, 7th period
• Annotation check from Friday's lit circle meeting
• Turn in your final reflection on Friday's lit circle meeting if you didn't complete it at Steaming Bean

Agenda
1. Share out starter responses with a partner

2. Review "Willing to be Disturbed" and class norms

3. Read "The Creation" by Eduardo Galeano

• Make an interpretive claim about the passage-- What does it mean?
• Discuss:  What questions is Galeano answering?  How does this passage relate to the questions of the week?

4. Watch Rick Warren's TED Talk"A Life of Purpose"

• How does his faith give him purpose?
• Are his arguments convincing?
• Even if you are not religious, what can we learn from his example?

5. Read pages 191 (from "Religion and the Indifferent Universe") to the end of "The Meaning of Life" reading.  

6. Discussion: How/Why does religion help people answer the questions of our existence? What new ideas does this reading give you about the meaning of life? 

7. Go over the STUDENT-LED SEMINAR Guidelines and then we'll take time for GROUP PREP TIME