in-class assignment for Thursday 11/6
These tasks must be completed in class. It is due to me by the end of the day via email. You may work with a partner to complete the given tasks.
Your answers should be in complete and well-thought out sentences. Critically consider the two sources we’ve looked at together. Critically consider your own answer to the big question. Impress me with the sophistication and maturity of your thinking.
Big question: Why do humans create communities?
1. Consider what others (Bloom and Lieberman) have said.
TASK: Summarize as accurately as possible each of their answers to your chosen question. Use one of the writing templates to begin your summary.
2. Decide how much you trust your source as VALID and RELIABLE
TASK: Check their credentials. (go to each of their Wikipedia pages: Bloom and Lieberman). Answer: What factors about their credentials matter most to you? Why?
TASK: Research how other trustworthy sources have responded to the ideas. Here are some: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . Answer: How do the reviews of their two books effect your thinking about their claims? Why?
TASK: Evaluate the relative trustworthiness of their evidence and claims. Whose evidence do you find more convincing? Why? Who builds a better argument? Why?
3. Clearly articulate your agreement or disagreement with what others have said.
TASK: Use the writing templates to give you a place to start writing how you feel about both sources.
4. Articulate your own answer to the question IN LIGHT OF what others have said.
TASK: Show you have synthesized the ideas of others in how you answer the big question.
Your answers should be in complete and well-thought out sentences. Critically consider the two sources we’ve looked at together. Critically consider your own answer to the big question. Impress me with the sophistication and maturity of your thinking.
Big question: Why do humans create communities?
1. Consider what others (Bloom and Lieberman) have said.
TASK: Summarize as accurately as possible each of their answers to your chosen question. Use one of the writing templates to begin your summary.
2. Decide how much you trust your source as VALID and RELIABLE
TASK: Check their credentials. (go to each of their Wikipedia pages: Bloom and Lieberman). Answer: What factors about their credentials matter most to you? Why?
TASK: Research how other trustworthy sources have responded to the ideas. Here are some: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . Answer: How do the reviews of their two books effect your thinking about their claims? Why?
TASK: Evaluate the relative trustworthiness of their evidence and claims. Whose evidence do you find more convincing? Why? Who builds a better argument? Why?
3. Clearly articulate your agreement or disagreement with what others have said.
TASK: Use the writing templates to give you a place to start writing how you feel about both sources.
4. Articulate your own answer to the question IN LIGHT OF what others have said.
TASK: Show you have synthesized the ideas of others in how you answer the big question.