Monday, October 6th

Today's Goals

• Pick your topic for the op-ed and begin researching opposing viewpoints on your issue

STARTER
From the Ted Talk linked above: "When our great grandchildren look back at us, will they be as appalled by some of our practices as we are by our slave-owning, witch-burning, wife-beating, gay-bashing ancestors?"~ Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Philosopher and Professor

A. What are some current issues that our great grandchildren may look back at and be appalled?

B. Silently read page 2, "Exhibition Project Tasks" of this document:  requirements for our project   and write down any questions you have about the project (from grading, to content, to timeline, to the exhibition, etc...)

Agenda
1. Announcements and Homework for the week

2. Project Requirements Review (Whole Class)

• Review the  requirements for our project  and DEADLINES (enter into your planner)
•  list of possible issues 

3. Mini lesson: Introduce JOURNAL #6: opposing viewpoint analysis and research handout 

• Make sure to save all of your links in order to cite your work properly!

4. WORK TIME

• Choose a political issue related to a current events article that you want to do for our Morality and Politics of Justice project and complete the survey at the top of today's blog
  
  • Stuck???  Look at the LIST OF POSSIBLE ISSUES and EDMODO posts from this past week!
• Begin working onthe opposing viewpoint analysis form
  
• Conference with Ashley if you're struggling to come up with topic ideas or need help narrowing your topic.

5. Last 20 minutes of class: Go over the  Moral Philosophy Exams and instructions for test corrections (Due Friday)

• Test average was originally 32/44
• I curved it 3 points (added 3 points to everyone's grade so that the average would be a B-)
• See the student examples for excellent test responses and my powerpoint for clarification on why your answers may have been wrong or incomplete
• Come to Wednesday's Lunch Help or Office Hours
• Project grade won't be entered into Powerschool until I've graded ALL parts of this project (Exam, Journal, Op-Ed, Campaign Visual)