Homework for September 16th

In class today we worked with four documents that had to do with the Colonial and British Government. (each student looked at two documents) Each document had a slightly different task.  The documents by Hobbes and Locke had questions to answer along with them, and they were posted in Classroom.  The documents themselves are linked up above.  The descriptions of the British and Colonial systems of government are linked up.  For those documents you need to diagram what the government looked like (while giving an explanation if you like) using Explain Everything, and share your links with Mr. Whitten and Ms. DelLlano via email, or through the app itself. (whitten@bpsk12.org, Delllano@bpsk12.org)

For tonight, finish answering questions or making your drawing for the documents you worked with in class.  We will work with the other two documents in class tomorrow.

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!

Readings for September 18

For tonight, read pages 186-193 in the textbook.

We will be looking at Legalism and the Qin Dynasty tomorrow in class.  An example of Legalist thought is linked up here. Take a look and we'll discuss it a bit more if you have questions tomorrow.

Daoism...what the what?

For tonight, take a look at the selections from the Dao De Jing that were shared with you in class today and are linked up here.  Read #s 1, 2, 8, 11, 12 until you feel you understand them. If you understand them after only one reading, you are probably not doing it right. These are meant to be obscure, paradoxical and provocative. So read them a couple of times.

Once you think you get them, come up with one sentence that describes what Daoism is all about, and post it on your blog.