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Philosophy

Big Questions:​ What is Philosophy? What is the purpose of Philosophy? How should I live? How do I know something?

Initial work:

1. Read and summarize secondary philosophy texts (video and print)
2. Analyze present day issue from news media using ideas/concepts from summarized philosophy texts
3. Respond to relevant philosophical quote, linking ideas/concepts from philosophical and media texts studied.


Projects/Assignments:


1. Analyze a children's book/news article for philosophical significance.
2. Create a short, illustrated children's book with accompanying philosophical questions.
3. Write a Critical Review of a peer's children's book; incorporate themes and ideas studied in class and researched independently.
​4. Art and Philosophy (Visual Arts, Media, Reading and Writing)
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Assessments

MindsOn Activity

Remembrance Day Posters (Focus on Critical Thinking)

How to Remember and Honour the Butter Battle
poppy_debate.docx
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remembrance_day_posters.docx
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remembrance_day_poster_assignment.doc
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1. Philosophical analysis of a children's book/news article (literature circles)

anton_and_the_battle.pdf
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click_clack_moo_reading_questions.docx
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bad_seed.pdf
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bad_seed_analysis.docx
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nightgarden.pdf
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2. Literature Circles with Novels

literature_circle_notes.docx
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literature_circle_rubric.doc
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3. Storybook Creation Project

create_a_childrens_book.docx
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Use Adobe Spark to create a video retelling (or imovie or AfterEffects).

Ellen and Karmen

THE LITTLeST DINOSAUR

Jack the Artist

Without Our Blindfolds

The Happiness Vial

The Fencing Cup

How the Tortoise got his Shell

A Child of Books


ROUGH Planning Examples for Children's Book

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4. Critical Review of Peer's storybook


5. Art and Philosophy Project (Visual Arts, Reading and Media)

philosophy_and_art_assignment.docx
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Introduction to Philosophy: Thinking
1. Critical Thinking

Utilitarian-  means, fixed-ends thinking
Radical - Frame-challenging, challenging of ends
Divergent - other than, not in opposition


2. Logical Thinking

Clarity
Assumptions
Definitions
Causal links; relationships
Common Fallacies
3. Relation of Ethics and Thinking


horton_hears_a_who_questions.docx
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teaching_humility_pdf
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income_inequality_or_opportunity.pdf
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science_survive_age_of_alt_facts.docx
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Implicit Bias

what_you_read_matters.docx
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Personal Identity
de Beauvoir; Sartre; Camus
Big Idea:

People make their own history [and create their own identity and give their life meaning], but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. - Karl Max

Who we are and what we do is influenced by circumstances which we recreate (and thus can change).

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CONSUMERISM AND IDENTITY

the_sneetches_questions.docx
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toys_r_us_gender_toy_activity.docx
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gendered_toys.docx
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dress_code_change.docx
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quebec_transgender_.docx
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pandoras_box.pdf
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willy_loman_syndrome.docx
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EXISTENTIALISM

sartre_de_beauvoir_and_camus.pdf
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the_anguish_of_freedom_haoyi.pdf
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Moral Values: Good and Evil
Nietzsche; Levinas; Kant; Arendt; Singer; Bentham


nietzsche.pdf
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immanuel_kant.pdf
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Prisoners' Dilemma

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1. Play 10 rounds.
2. If anyone has more than 100 years time, they are automatically executed.
3. The team with the most years at the end of the time is executed, and the team with the least is given 5 pieces of candy.
4. If everyone has the same amount of time in jail, everyone gets one piece of candy.

Questions:
1. How do you think the context influenced your decision?
2. How does this relate (or not) to real life?
singer.pdf
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industrial_farming_worst_crimes.docx
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arendt.pdf
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is_it_ok_to_punch_a_nazi.docx
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interview_a_white_supremacist.docx
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charlottesville_outing_rwe.docx
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the_gold_coin.pdf
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the_gold_coin_questions.docx
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Justice (Political Philosophy)
Marx; Rawls; Rousseau; Hobbes; Nozick; Adam Smith

Which Canadian Political Party Most Represents Your Views?


GOVERNMENT

thomas_hobbes.pdf
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rousseau.pdf
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yertle_the_turtle_questions.docx
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ECONOMIC JUSTICE

rawls.pdf
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taxation_thought_experiments.docx
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basic_income.docx
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poor_ontario_families_poorer.docx
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zero_hour_contracts.docx
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women_unpaid_work.docx
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bad_click_clack_moo_questions.pdf
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let’s_hear_it_for_the_four_hour_work_day.docx
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

dr._seuss_the_loraxbokos-z1.pdf
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lorax_questions.docx
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MIGRANT JUSTICE

canada_and_refugees.docx
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Purposeful life

TECHNOLOGY

internet_and our brains.doc
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tech addiction interview

questions_gift_of_nothing.docx
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Past Assignments

art_and_philosophy.docx
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technological_thinking.docx
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