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	CURRENT CLASSES Drama Senior English Sophomore English STUFF I'VE TAUGHT Advanced Composition American Literature A.P. English Creative Writing Critical Reading Frosh English Media Literacy Psychology Senior Seminar Theory of Knowledge Women in Literature X-TRA STUFF Literary Magazine Chess Club Chimera Creative Juices Café Film Festival Outside Agora Radio Show		Theory of Knowledge Introduction Introductory Letter Syllabus/Course Description Course Progression Daily Lesson Plans Q1 (Subject to Modifications) Senior Calendar - Updated College Freshmen Not Ready! Free Will Assignments/Projects/Handouts (see binder for most material & Links menu in upper right corner of this page) Ways of Knowing Apples Confessions of a Former Cultural Relativist Critiquing Communications - Subway Reverse Speech Hu's on First Language Questions Language Quotes Netspeak & Purists Perceptive Language Propaganda Questions BULL#$%! Syllogisms Syllogism Forms Syllogism Game Math* T4 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon Natural Science ESP Lab Closes [Word] Social Science House Divided Project House Divided Poster 1 House Divided Poster 2 Our Stories-Ourselves Project Ethics Lifeboat Hobbes Game Rawls Game Billionaire Philanthropy Playing God? Aesthetics Aesthetics Questions Art or Pornography Global Gallery Possible Placard Seurat Med Essays, Presentations, Assessments Contribution Evaluation Essay (External Assessment) Info Sheet & Rubric External Essay Reminders "Turnin' It In" Template Internal Assessment	Theory of Knowledge Links: Intro IBO Website TOK Resources (Updated for all areas of TOK) Philosophy Puzzles (U. of R) Taking Science on Faith Theory of Knowledge Students Win Contest Video Contest [scroll to bottom under "Video Contest"] Perception See Psychology Links for Perception & Memory Perception - read this sentence Pentagon & Potential Propaganda Subliminal Perception Dans Le Noir -"In the Dark" Eating Am I in the Matrix? Language "The Chaos" of the English language The Interpreter's Friend What to call the USA? [Word] Words Don’t Mean What They Mean The Big One: The F-Word Origin of OK Political Buzzwords Excised by the Language Police Thin Gruel: Language Police Drain Life & Content Banned Words, Images & Topics "Private" or "Personal" Social Security Accounts? Oleanna Review Harold Pinter production of Oleanna Oleanna reviews at Rotten Tomatoes The Oleanna site to visit (if visiting just one) The Art or Science of BS Good Gossip? The Language of "War on Terror" Emotion Emotion - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The Intimate Machine -Manufacturing Emotions Saving our National Treasures - Where Emotion, History & Science meet (NOVA) Critique of Emotional Reason (Thagard) "Why Wasn't O.J. Convicted? - Emotional Coherence in Legal Inference (Thagard) Emotion & Self-Deception: Scarlet Letter Model The Passionate Scientist: Emotion & Scientific Cognition Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo) Ethics & Emotions Motivation & Emotion (G. Katz lecture notes) Prisoner's Dilemma Interactive Exercise BLINK - Rapid Cognition vs. Intuition (Gladwell) Logic/Reason Logic Tutorial Mathematics Fibonacci 1 Fibonacci 2 Fibonacci 3 "Net Win Shares Value" (ballplayer's value) Origami Mathematics Natural Science Blending Science & Religion God & Science Evolution & Kansas Beer study by Guinness Scientist Admits Faking Data Science Students Win $100,000 Prize-NPR Gender Gap in Math & Science Gender & the Sciences Tut, Tut. No Head Wound for Pharoah? Nature Deficit Disorder Fruit Flies & Sexual Orientation Social Science People Like Us Taking on Skin color: Art & Politics in White Grow Up Too Fast?: The Twixters Re-examing Broken Windows Theory (NPR) Perceptions of Social Disorder in Neighborhoods Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth Sports Done Right Students for Academic Freedom Class Matters: An Exploration of Social Class Popcorn Report - 2004 Popcorn Report - 2005 History Final Struggle Over Pearl Harbor Attacks License Plate Mottos - OH vs. NC (look 'em up) StoryCorps: Oral History Celebrating Ourselves StoryCorps on NPR Camera Captures History? Ethics Peter Singer Terri Schiavo Case The Ethicist - NPR Children as Pesticides Research Subjects Teach for America Scientists Draft Ethics Rules on Stem Cell Research Wreck of the William Brown Art & Aesthetics Sinfonia Controversy in NY - NPR RuralStudio The Turner Prize 1BreathTime - Take breath, make art! Christo's "Gates" Graffiti Jackson Pollack Street Art by Kurt Wenner Commerce or Art? Beastie Boys Sampling Case Who's an Artist? Seeing Shouldn’t Always Be Believing How Art Got Its Start