Project info

The project description is linked up here

The groups are linked up here.

The reading is linked up here.

Sorry that this was a little rushed in class today.  There are 5-ish of you in each group, and there are four regions we will be looking at, so there will be one region that pulls two philosophers into the dialog. You should divide the regions amongst you so that each of you takes responsibility for one region.

Tonight, read your section of the reading. One of you should start a google document from your home computer and share it with the rest of the group and with me.  Tomorrow you should decide who is going to be which philosopher, I will give you your topic, and you can then start the dialog.

homework--Alexander the Great

For tonight, watch the clips from In the Footsteps of Alexander the great listed below (the numbers are the minutes in the video when you should start watching--should be around 45 minutes in total).  On your blog, post a response to what you watch: Does Alexander deserve to be called "The Great?" Why or why not?

Part 2 "Lord of Asia"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJnuMBZnAbQ

2:00-8:00 In Iraq, on the plane with the Brits

28:26-34:00ish Persepolis burns

43:53-47:40 death of Darius

Part 3 Across the Hindu Kush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=277cyzL5nLc

It opens in Kabul, which shows what the city looked like before the US invasion...not pretty. And they go to the equivalent of the MFA in Kabul, and that’s upsetting...

7:00 Hindu Kush upward to 11:00 Gives a good look at the terrain, and once again, car trouble...

18:37 Woods finds the root plant and tries to eat it, through the gunfire of bandits and the summit 23:00—nothing stopped him, nothing put him off…

36:30-38:30 Bessus captured, Alexandria the farthermost founded.

45:00-47:30 Cleitus' death

52:00 Marry Roxanne-declaration of worship as a god, Persian style. Assassination attempt, and falling out with Calisthenes 57:30

Part 4 "To the Ends of the Earth"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5HzkRO8TGA

32:30-36:30 on the wall

46:00 final march begins 48:30 water dumping incident

last five minutes of fourth disc: 50-55 minutes Death of Alexander in Babylon

Homework for September 30

Cheerful stuff, but read page 250 in the textbook and the description of the Death of Socrates.  We will talk more about who he was and what he did tomorrow.

Homework for the weekend of September 27--Going to the Cave

For this weekend, you are to read the selection of Plato's The Republic, which was shared with you via your school email and is linked up here.

It is not an easy read, and I expect you will have to read it closely a couple of times before it starts to really make sense.  Puzzle over it a bit, and be ready to talk about it in class on Monday!