ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

HOME                                                                                                             READING ASSIGNMENTS You are responsible to have read the assignments by the time you come to class. This is critical to good discussion and learning. If you read about 12 pages per day  you will keep up! (And the pages are small in Sophie's World!)  DAILY QUIZZES Daily quizzes are given at the beginning of each class. The questions are taken from the assigned readings for the day.  Each quiz is worth a possible 20 points.  There will be a quiz following the special focus  session worth a possible 10pts. It cannot be made up.    WHAT'S the GROUP'S PHILOSOPHY?  "What's the Group's Philosophy" is to be completed and handed in at the end of class.  Each one is worth a possible 5 pts to each student in the group and cannot be made up. These are note for your group to help in presenting your groups "philosophy."  Dissenting opinions may be included. These exercises are designed to help you consolidate your thinking on the days work. DISCUSSION CREDITS The Discussion Worksheet is your aid to effective discussion. Discussion credits will be assigned by receipt of the day's discussion worksheet.   These must be handed in before leaving class and while Discussion Worksheets can be made up, in class discussion credits (WGP?) can not . You are responsible to print out, fill out, and bring the worksheets below to class with you. DW12 - Hegel & Romanticism Click here Due Tuesday, July 12 Context & Question Unit 12 Click here Provided in class Tuesday, July 12 Please read in advance! _________________ DW 13 - Kierkegaard & Marx Click here Due Wednesday, July 13 Context & Question Unit 13 Click here Provided in class Wednesday, July 13 Please read in advance! ___________________ DW14 - Darwin & Freud Click here Due Thursday, July 14 Context & Question Unit 14 Click here Provided in class  Thursday, July 14 Please read in advance!   »  Unit Introductions & Enrichment « Click here I use these in my online class.  They are not required but they will only take a few minutes to read and will help prepare your mind for absorbing the class material. _____________________________ Past Worksheets   ___________________ DW10 - The British Empiricists Click here Due Wednesday June 6 Context & Question Unit 10 Click here Provided in class Please read in advance! DW 11 - Kant & Enlightenment Click here Due Thursday June 7 _________________ Context & Question Unit 11 None BACK TO TOP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DW 2 - Myth and Wonder
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Due Thursday, March 24

Context & Question Unit 2
Click here

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DW 3 - Natural Philosophers
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Due Tuesday, March 29

Context & Question Unit 3
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DW 4 - Sophist and Socrates
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Due Tuesday June 21

Context & Question Unit 4
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DW 5 - Plato
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Due Wednesday June 22

Context & Question Unit 5
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W 6 - Aristotle
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Due Thursday June 23

Context & Question Unit 6
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DW 7 - Two Cultures/Middle Ages
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Due Tuesday, June 28

Context & Question Unit 7
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Please read in advance!
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DW 8 - Renaissance/Baroque
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Due Wednesday June 29

Context & Question Unit 8
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Please read in advance!

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Thursday June 30

No Discussion Worksheet

U9 Alternate Assignment
(No Context & Question)

Read and study Descartes'
First Meditations - Meditation 1 &2
and be prepared for a 10 question/20 pt. quiz.
It will be "open book," but you will be unprepared
to find the answers if you haven't studied it first.
Click here
for First Meditation Text
(I will provide hard copy Tuesday in class)

 

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DW 13 - Kierkegaard & Marx
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Due Tuesday, May 12

Context & Question Unit 13
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Provided in class Tuesday May 12
Please read in advance!
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DW14 - Darwin & Freud
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Due Thursday May 14

Context & Question Unit 14
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Provided in class Thursday May 14
Please read in advance!

No Discussion Worksheet for Thursday May 21

Context & Question
"Human in a Vast Universe"
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No DW for Unit 15
 We will do U15 on Thursday May 12
 after we finish Darwin and Freud.

No DW for Unit 16 : )

Context & Question Unit 16
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Provided in class Thursday May 19
Please read in advance!