Happy Friday! Over the weekend, you should finish reading Chapter 10; that will cover the Greek Philosophers (among other things). There will be a quiz on Tuesday that will cover Persia and Greece, NOT including Alexander the Great. We'll talk about him starting on Tuesday, and I'll tell you more about the quiz on Monday.
Period 2, please email me (whitten@bpsk12.org) the name of your blog that you created today and the url for the blog so I can follow you and we can start our conversations.
Lastly, click on the link here to get to a selection from Plato's The Republic. It is one of the more famous/notorious sections of this book called "The Allegory of the Cave." It is a dialog that takes place between Socrates and his students, and the subject of it is human awareness of reality. What is real? How do you know? You may need to read this a couple of times--though the underlying concept is fairly simple, it isn't presented as such! We will discuss this in class on Monday with the help of a few scenes from The Matrix...
Have a good weekend!
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