Secondary Resources
Use this page to continue your research and inquiry.
Notebook Assessment Information
Annotations - What is Expected
Annotating Your Readings
Expectations:
- Annotate for connections: mark sections that make you think of something specific that helps you better understand the text and jot a note about what you thought of
- Annotate for author’s purpose and author’s craft: mark sections that help you understand why the author wrote this text and note your thinking
- Mark sections where you see the author using a specific technique (repetition, varied sentence structure, allusion, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc.) and note your thinking
- Ask questions: what confuses you, what makes you think, what do you not understand
- Define all words you do not know
- Make connections to other materials we have covered in class
- Make connections to what is happening in the world around you
Did you find Dennett's rules for writing helpful? Check out other useful resources for structuring your arguments below.
Click HERE for more info. (Illustrated Book of Arguments)
FASHION & CAPITALISM
Spicer & DWTS (on Spectacle)
Not getting enough sleep? This could be detrimental to your long term health. Read about it HERE.
Plato's Allegory of the Cave video
UN Justice Goal for 2015 Video
3 Minute Philosophy on Plato
Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Social Contract
Steve Jobs Article on Loving What You Do
Documentaries on various topics that can be considered for your final project:
The Lottery of Birth (Rawls esq theory on how societies are formed/ your station in life is largely determined by your parents)
Noam Chomsky: In Our Times (educational theory/reform)
Check out Hulu for other documentaries related to Big Questions we have discussed all semester!
Notes on how to access the library databases (for scholarly sources!)
Format for writing a business letter
Writing Strategies for your Notebook
Sustainability while Living in a Dumpster- read about it here!
Beyonce & Sex & her music career in an industry built on sex click HERE
"Why so many smart people aren't happy" - Research from a UT professor
Western do-gooders need to resist the allure of "exotic" problems
The Case Against Reality: A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses
The Death of Moral Relativism Considered by conservatives to be one of postmodern society’s greatest threats, moral relativism may now be a relic of the past
When Success Leads to Failure: The pressure to achieve academically is a crime against learning.
Final Project:
Central Question - due 5/1
Source Eval 1/2 way check - due 5/6
Source Evals - due 5/9 in turnitin.com & printed
Coherent Conversation - due 5/14 in turnitin.com & printed
Final Project video (jump drive or share) & packet (printed) - due 5/20 (C Day)