08/19/19 — Monday
Post date: Aug 20, 2019 10:26:28 AM
Homework:
1. Read, annotate, and complete the most important ideas organizer for Solitude and Leadership by block day so that you will be well prepared for the Socratic seminar discussion.
Outcome Objective:
1. Understand that sustained attention and patience are required when attempting to comprehend complex material.
First Thing:
1. Get the handouts from up front: Solitude and Leadership and the most important ideas organizer
2. Discuss the significance of the following quote with those around you
Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.
—Burke, Kenneth. 1941. The Philosophy of Literary Form. 110-11, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
3. Share out conclusions
4. A note about homework (Google Classroom and letter) —Advisory
Agenda:
1. Address note card questions and other general questions
2. Look closely at a painting together for a full ten minutes and record every little detail you can see in the painting during the allotted time: John Singleton Copley’s Boy with a Flying Squirrel
3. Note time based observations:
4. Debrief
What was noticed first?
What details took longer to see? Why?
What details would have been missed if you'd stopped looking after one minute?
— A final look
5. Sticky note exit ticket