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Read and react to "Where Am I" - Due Thursday at 7:10 AM |
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Enjoy your break! |
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Week of March 28
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Read and annotate Jackson and Nagel, focusing on the central question - Are we made out of meat? - Due Thursday |
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Week of March 7
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Read and annotate "The Deadweight loss of Christmas" focusing on methods and conclusions - Due Tuesday, March 8 |
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Week of February 28
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Please see the note in Teams posted Friday for the due date of the Final PE; Read and annotate "The Deadweight loss of Christmas" focusing on methods and conclusions - Due Tuesday, March 8 |
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Read and annotate "The Deadweight loss of Christmas" focusing on methods and conclusions - Due Thursday, March 10; On Tuesday we will watch a video by social scientist Richard Wilkinson on the impact of inequality on human society |
Week of February 21
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Read and annotate Sandel - Thursday |
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Week of February 14
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Divide your groups in half (a-b). A will read and annotate - Traits and attributes are predictable from Annotations should focus on the methods used in the study, how they relate to big data, and the possible uses and abuses of these methods. Don't get tied up in the math used in the studies! PE #2 Draft - Due Friday, February 18 at 11:59 PM |
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PE #2 Draft - Due Friday, February 18 at 11:59 PM |
Week of February 7
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Verstehen Homework - due Tuesday, February 15; PE #2 draft - due to teams on Friday, February 18 |
Week of January 31
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Read and annotate opposing viewpoints on whether the human sciences are science: |
Week of January 24
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Read and annotate - Two States, Eight textbooks, Two American Stories - due Thursday, January 27 - This article needs to be read online to see the examples. If the above link is blocked by a paywall, try these two methods: This is a link to the article from A214 Board site. Usually the Times drops the paywall for connections made through social media. If that doesn't work, try Googling the title of the article . The Times used to allow access to five free articles a day via Google. |
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Week of January 17
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Read and annotate Black Reconstruction (excerpts) - Due Thursday |
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Read the Virginia Law. Describe, using bullet points, what the law does and what its likely effects on the classroom would be (Think about what we read and talked about on Thursday, for example). Then answer the following questions:
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Week of January 10
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Read and annotate Mitch Landrieu's speech on the removal of Confederate monuments - due Thursday, January 13 |
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Week of January 3
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Read and annotate Mitch Landrieu's speech on the removal of Confederate monuments - due Thursday, January 13 |
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Week of November 29
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Read and annotate - "The Fog of History Wars" - Due Tuesday, December 7(PDF version) |
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Week of November 8
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Choose and answer 5 of the Maya Lin discussion questions - Due Tuesday, November 16 |
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Source: Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, Brown University |
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Week of November 1
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Identify a work of art that was not on our list but which you believe contributes to our knowledge about a difficult event (this could be historical or contemporary). Describe the event and the work of art that helps us to understand it, then analyze the work using the questions for the in class activity. Due Thursday to Teams. |
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Read (don't annotate) this description of the Vietnam War - Due Tuesday, November 9; Supplemental reading - I read this today and thought it was quite thoughtfully relevant to our current PE topic. There is nothing you need to do with this, but It might help stir some ideas regarding the PE |
Week of October 25
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Read and annotate Salcedo - due Thursday in Teams; PE Draft: 11:59 PM Wednesday, November 10 |
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PE Draft: 11:59 PM Wednesday, November 10 |
Week of October 18
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Complete aesthetic theories notes template - Due in hard copy - Thursday |
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Use the works of art we examined in the introductory activity to examine the three strengths and weaknesses of the seven approaches to aesthetics we examined over the last two days - Due Monday in Teams |
Week of October 11
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Week of October 4
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Read and annotate Tolstoy - Due Thursday, October 7 to Canvas |
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Read and annotate Tolstoy - Due Thursday, October 7 to Canvas; Read and annotate Picasso - due Tuesday, October 12 to Canvas |
Week of September 27
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Read and annotate Tolstoy - Due Thursday, October 7 to Canvas |
Week of September 20
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Claim assessment - due Tuesday in Canvas |
Week of September 13
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Week of September 6
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Group Activity due Monday in this Canvas inbox |
Week of August 30
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Vaccine mandates - a ToK scientific ethics debate - due Tuesday Resources: Ethical Considerations for a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate - from the Society for Critical Care Medicine Vaccine Mandates are Lawful, Effective and Based on Rock-Solid Science from Scientific American University Vaccine Mandates Violate Medical Ethics - from the Wall Street Journal Instead of an annotation, prepare a basic argument outline (discussed in class) for your assigned position. Please also write three questions you would pose to the opposing side. - Due Thursday |
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Week of August 23
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Read and annotate Lacks article - Submit via Canvas by Thursday |
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Vaccine mandates - a ToK scientific ethics debate - due Thursday Resources: Ethical Considerations for a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate - from the Society for Critical Care Medicine Vaccine Mandates are Lawful, Effective and Based on Rock-Solid Science from Scientific American University Vaccine Mandates Violate Medical Ethics - from the Wall Street Journal Instead of an annotation, prepare a basic argument outline (discussed in class) for your assigned position. Please also write three questions you would pose to the opposing side.
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Week of August 16
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Week of August 9
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Read and annotate - "Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds" - Due Tuesday, August 17 |
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Read and annotate - "Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds" - Due Tuesday, August 17- Think about the following questions: 1. What ethical obligations does knowledge impose on us? 2. What are the ethical obligations for scientists regarding this knowledge? 3. What should be the relationship between scientific knowledge and ethics? Due Tuesday, August 17 |