Honors agreement 2016-17
Socratic Seminar Readings
Meeting 1 (9/23)
Background on Bill of Rights and 1st Am
Freedom of speech:
Meeting 3 (10/7)
Freedom of religion: 1)separation church/state background; 2)free exercise of religion background
Meeting 4 (10/21)
Freedom of press background
Meeting 5 (10/28 -- Wednesday)
Dewey: Thinking in Education
Gardener: Multiple Intelligences
Meeting 6 -- (11/4)
Woolf: "Shakespeare's Sister
Gilligan: "Woman's Place"
Meeting 7 (11/18)
Murdoch: Morality and Religion
Aristotle: The Aim of Man
Meeting 8 (12/2)
Carter: Separation of Church and State
Bhutto: Islam and Democracy
Meeting 9 (12/6)
Bosmajian: Dehumanizing People, Euphemizing War;
The Language of Oppression
Meeting 10 (12/9)
Machiavelli: "Qualities of the Prince"
Arendt: "Total Domination
Meeting 11: (12/13)
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau;
MLK Mountaintop speech
Meeting 12: (12/16)
Rawls: A Theory of Justice
Nussbaum: Central Human Functional Capabilities
JFK Inaugural Address
Obama: More Perfect Union
AP Rhetorical strategies cheat sheet -- use this to do a rhetorical evaluation of these two speeches. What do these authors do to make their speeches effective?
Darwin: Natural Selection
Gould: Nonmoral Nature
Postman: Learning in the Age of Television
Kozol: Still Separate
Reading and discussion questions
Background on Bill of Rights and 1st Am
- A close reading of the Preamble to the Constitution
- Why was the Constitution Necessary?
- The Bill of Rights -- Howard Zinn
- Bill of Rights -- the short version
- Bill of Rights with explanations
Freedom of speech:
- background on 1st amendment freedom of speech
Meeting 3 (10/7)
Freedom of religion: 1)separation church/state background; 2)free exercise of religion background
Meeting 4 (10/21)
Freedom of press background
Meeting 5 (10/28 -- Wednesday)
Dewey: Thinking in Education
Gardener: Multiple Intelligences
Meeting 6 -- (11/4)
Woolf: "Shakespeare's Sister
Gilligan: "Woman's Place"
Meeting 7 (11/18)
Murdoch: Morality and Religion
Aristotle: The Aim of Man
Meeting 8 (12/2)
Carter: Separation of Church and State
Bhutto: Islam and Democracy
Meeting 9 (12/6)
Bosmajian: Dehumanizing People, Euphemizing War;
The Language of Oppression
Meeting 10 (12/9)
Machiavelli: "Qualities of the Prince"
Arendt: "Total Domination
Meeting 11: (12/13)
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau;
MLK Mountaintop speech
Meeting 12: (12/16)
Rawls: A Theory of Justice
Nussbaum: Central Human Functional Capabilities
JFK Inaugural Address
Obama: More Perfect Union
AP Rhetorical strategies cheat sheet -- use this to do a rhetorical evaluation of these two speeches. What do these authors do to make their speeches effective?
Darwin: Natural Selection
Gould: Nonmoral Nature
Postman: Learning in the Age of Television
Kozol: Still Separate
Reading and discussion questions