Wednesday, January 27th

Starter #11
Review what you learned from Professor Roberts-Cady's lecture on Aristotle

• What were the major points of Aristotle's philosophy?
• What questions do you have about it?
• To what extent do you agree with Aristotle's philosophy of eudaimonia? 

Class Biz
Readings from Prof. Roberts-Cady on Happiness/Meaning

• "The Meaning of Life" by  James Rachel
• "The Meaning of Life" by Richard Taylor

Summary of Aristotle's philosophy of Eudaimonia (ignore page 1)
NEST meeting today
Honors exhibition next Tuesday, Feb 2nd from 5:30-7 at Steaming Bean. Please come support them!

Agenda
1. Turn and chat: How do you define success?
2. Listen to the Ted Radio Hour on "Success" Episodes #1 and #3:

• As you listen, write down a line that stands out to you as significant (either you strongly disagree with it or strongly agree with it) from both speakers 
• After listening: Summarize both speakers’ definition and discuss to what extent could either speakers’ definitions of success positively affect your own life. How?

3. Mini-study on "The Hero's Journey" 
Objective: Understand the archetypal hero's journey and apply this framework to Into the Wild and A Tale for the Time Being to help you better analyze the novel and determine if Chris McCandless and Nao are heroes in the literary sense.

Step 1: Read the handout entitled "The Hero's Journey" and ANNOTATE it by making connections to your list circle book

Today's Driving Question: To what extent does Into the Wild and T4TB align with the archetypal hero's journey? 

Step 2: Seminar

• While Into the Wild students have time to read and prep for Friday's lit circle meeting, Ashley will seminar with T4TB groups
• Then we'll switch!
• Into the Wild folks: What might Chris's hamartia be? [hamartia (n): tragic flaw (vice - or excess of virtue -leading to one’s downfall)

4. Time to read your book and prepare for Friday's lit circle meeting