Wednesday, February 26th

Starter:  Read today's objectives and chat with a partner about the two bullet point questions:

• What are today's objectives?
  
• What does the Krishnamurti quote mean to you?

Today's Objectives
1. Finish your essay, print it out and staple it to your 2 peer critique forms
2. Begin to formulate your own response to our Happiness and Meaning project essential questions, because education is life and life is education as Krishnamurti explains in Think on these Things: 

"...is it the function of education to prepare us while we are young to understand the whole process of life? Having a job and earning one's livelihood is necessary, but is that all? Are we being educated only for that? Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.  If we merely prepare ourselves to earn a livelihood, we shall miss the whole point of life; and to understand life is much more important than merely to prepare for examinations..." (Krishnamurti 2).

Agenda
1. Read and discuss "The Function of Education" by Krishnamurti

• Mark 2 quotes that stand out to you as thought-provoking, interesting, inspiring or with which you strongly disagree.
• 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.

2. Watch Watsky's "Tiny Glowing Screens Pt 2" video

3. Go over Personal Philosophy Project Proposal guidelines

4. Work time options

• Complete the self-check list and finish refining your essay
• SLC prep
• Begin personal philosophy
• Independent Study Honors DP Update

Self-Check 

• Is your claim clearly understood by the readers?  How can you make your claim clearer?
  
• Is your essay organized logically?  Are your points connected with strong transitions to help the reader follow your argument?
  
• Does every paragraph have a clear topic sentence?
  
• Does every paragraph have evidence from the text?
  
• Is every paragraph coherent? (That is, does everything in the paragraph belong together?)
  
• Does every paragraph support the main claim (thesis)?
  
• Do you use sufficient evidence to support your claim?  Do you need more evidence?
  
• Have you integrated your quoted material smoothly into the text?
  
• Did you follow proper MLA format for parenthetical citations?   
  
• Read your essay aloud.  Are there any sentences that seem difficult to get through or confusing?  Refine them!