What's due next?

• Be sure to be working on "evolving" your working question. In a typed paragraph, articulate your "evolved" research question, with an explanation of why this is a question worthy of research. In addition, I would like you to identify the sources that you have been working with, and the sources that you plan to read.

Our research

We have been working in the library with Ms. McAndrews to evolve our initial research question into a question that connects not only to the text, but to the reader and the world as well. We have been calling these "dense" questions."

Continue reading within the sources that you have been introduced to. On Thursday (block 4) and on Friday (block1) you will be asked to write your question and to turn it in for my review.

Write your questions here! (In the comment section)

TED talk to view for homework

Watch the following TED talk : https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_baggini_is_there_a_real_you?language=en

Take notes on the following questions:

1. What is the speaker's thesis?



2. What evidence does he give to support his thesis?




3. What are the implications of his thesis?

Homework

• Be sure to read Kafka's Metamorphosis. Block 1 is due 11/2 and Block 4 due 11/3.
• Please write three questions/ideas that you would like to discuss.

This Week

• We will be performing scenes from No Exit (10/28 block 1 and 10/29 block 4).
• We took a quiz on existentialism 10/27 block 4 and 10/26 block 1.

Please remember that you have FIVE school days in which to make up a quiz. Quizzes can be found in the ERC. After five days the quiz will be a 0.

Link to electronic copy of Metamorphosis: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kafka/franz/metamorphosis/

Block 1 Assignment for Monday 10/26

• In class we took notes on the theory of existentialism.
• Then I asked groups to chose a page to two pages of No Exit that clearly illustrates existentialism and its tenets.
• The group, with line coaches, will perform the text they have chosen (with props, action, blocking etc....) in a way that clearly illustrates the group's interpretation of the scene's importance to existential principles.
• There will be a quiz on existentialism on Monday. Please be sure to bring your notes on existentialism to class on Monday.

1. Pages 12-14 (Patrick, Darius, Lesley, Joy, Anna)
2. 10-12 (Kim, Bethany, Ashley, Rachel, Marie)
3. 14-15 (Daniela, Megan, Marika, Rose, Jamie)
4  26-27 (Noah, Spencer, Dan, Kimber, Goose)