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Welcome back from Høstferie! I hope you had a pleasant, relaxing week & did nice things with friends & family.
This is my last week in the classroom. Starting next week, Ms. Gjertsen will take over as your teacher. I’ll be in the building working on various things until Oct 29 & then begin my maternity leave. Baby should arrive before the end of November!
Psych:
Comp Govt: we’ll continue studying the origins of the Cold War, focusing on the question: Who was to blame for the Cold War? Wondering about what exactly communism is? Monday’s class will include a good overview of political and economic systems. Notes are due on Friday (see Edline).
TOK 1: Perception as a Way of Knowing: How do our senses both help and fail us in our quest for knowledge? No homework due this week. You’ll have a journal assignment due next week (see Edline).
TOK 2: The Natural Sciences as an Area of Knowledge. No homework due this week. You’ll have an assignment due next week (see Edline).
I’ve very much enjoyed being your teacher. Thank you for the opportunity. If you’d like to stay in touch or need to ask me a question sometime, drop an email to: sohasa@gmail.com
–Sonja Saar, October 2010
Remember: Final IA (hard copy only, please) due by 15:15 on Thursday, Oct 21. No excuses.
Psych: last in-class days to work on your IA. All sections should be emailed to me so I can give you feedback. Remember: FINAL IA is due Thurs, Oct 21. No late slips. No excuses.
Comp Govt: On Monday, your final essay about the Hitler Trial is due. We’re studying the origins of the Cold War with a particular focus on the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. Notes due Wed (see Edline).
TOK 1: We’ll begin Perception this week — how do our senses affect our knowledge and knowing? Journal entry due Tuesday. See Edline.
TOK 2: The Natural Sciences as an Area of Knowing. What are the knowledge issues related to the scientific method? Ethics & Knowledge Issues assignment due Thursday.
Henry David Thoreau
Psych: Continue your work on your IA. All data should be collected and organized by now. Results section is due on Wed, Sept 29 (for the M-W class) or Tues, Oct 5 (for T-Th class). Discussion section is due next week. If you’re going away on a trip, you must email these according to the instructions on the schedule which I handed out. You can download a copy of it from dropbox.com.
TOK 1: We’ll continue with “The Truman Show” and discuss Truman as a Knower. Nothing due this week. You will have a Journal entry due Tues, Oct 5. Trip-goers should email it before they leave.
TOK 2: No class this week due to Staff In-Service days on Thurs and Fri. You have an assignment due next week — see the HW calendar to download a new copy. Trip-goers should turn it in before they leave.
Comp Govt: We’ll finish the Hitler Trial and debriefing on Monday. Origins of the Cold War is up next! A quiz and reaction essay to the Hitler Trial will be due next week.
Sister Mary Lauretta
Psych: You should have your Method section done and emailed to me. Conduct your experiment & begin to organize the data. Go back & revise your Intro, References & Method sections, according to the comments I’ve given you.
Comp Gov’t: On Mon & Wed, we’ll prep for the Hitler trial. Be prepared to conduct the trial in class on Friday.
TOK 1: We’ll continue our examination of The Knower by watching The Truman Showand discussing to what extent Truman is a “knower”. Nothing due this week.
TOK 2: Continuing our examination of ethics & the “theories of ethics” started last week, we’ll also consider knowledge issues we can draw from this Area of Knowledge. Nothing due this week.
Psych: Internal Assessment. See the schedule. Your tasks for this week include: turn in Intro & References; one copy (per group) of each consent form; organize participants (get consent from teachers, if necessary); prep all materials; Method section
Comp Gov’t: Test on Monday (see the handout and blog page for the study questions); begin prep for the Hitler Trial
TOK 1: What does it mean to be a Knower? What does it mean to know something?
TOK 2: summary of last week’s work with Knowledge Issues (HW due — see handout); begin Ethics
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth.
As heard by Gerda Klein, Holocaust survivor, in “One Survivor Remembers”.
Psych: we’ll get started with your IA
Comp Gov’t: studying the Holocaust & finishing up our overview of WW2
TOK1: The dangers of relativism . . . do you agree?
TOK2: Knowledge Issues — some practice in identifying them
Thought of the week:
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