Tag Archives: free will

8/26/15 – A

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We started the class off today by watching a few clips and discussing Fate and Free will. This isn’t a grade, but if you weren’t here, it might help just to at least look at the questions that were asked.

Then we did a quote sort. For each quote, decide if it shows more fatalism or free will, and copy and paste it to the correct column.

Lastly, we did the Fate Linear Array. In a groupin a group of 2-3), sort the fate/free will words in a linear array. I have an example done with appearances that you can use to illustrate.

linear array

It will look like this, but on one side will be FATE and the other FREE WILL.

 

The list of words in in BB and there is construction paper provided. Again, there should be discussion about where some of these words go. You may need help with some of the nuances of the words, but you can ask people for help with this.

You can get the construction paper from me.

1/23/2015 – A

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We reviewed MY Peanut Butter Jelly Time pictures! I told you that if I expect YOU to do the assignment, I’ve done it myself. Remember, the more that you hear the information and the more ways that you see it presented, the more likely that you’ll actually LEARN it!

Peanut Butter Jelly Time Riley

Then, we took a group quiz. You were supposed to work WITH your group to answer those questions. You can take this quiz as many times as you need to and it’s open *everything*. The only thing that I ask is that the first time you take the quiz, please abstain from looking up answers on the internet. Why? I want to see how well you can get the correct answers with the material that we did in class. Not only am I assessing you on how well you learned, I’m assessing the effectiveness of my teaching and the assignments. The last question is over your group work. I really do read these answers – they help me. You can totally scold me for not having taught the Old English/English/Latin bit before we tested. That was totally my fault. Bad Riley.

Lastely, we did a Quote Sort. I gave you a list of quotes about fate and free will.

fate.free willFirst, find a definition of free will and fatalism that makes sense to you. Put it in the chart. Then, read through the quotes and drag them to the column where you think it belongs. This isn’t a hard activity, but it makes your brain hurt from thinking. REMINDER: just because the quote uses the word FATE doesn’t mean it’s an examples of fatalism. Some of these don’t have a correct answer, so don’t freak out if you and a buddy from class think differently about a quote.

12/4/2014

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Get ready for the hardest thing you’ll ever read. Worse than Shakespeare! Harder than a stereo manual! Even more difficult than trying to file your taxes! It’s John Milton and Paradise Lost!

We listened to the Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil before we began today, and I even dressed up for the lesson today.

riley devilI gave you all MY notes for this, so it should be saved as a OneNote file on your desktop. If you weren’t here, or I couldn’t send it to you (Elizabeth and Kawika!), I’ll give it to you tomorrow. No point in making you do extra work!

Big ideas to remember: free will, pride, invocation, topic statement, epic, Adam and Eve, inversion, run on sentences, and sects.

If God is all powerful and all good, how is it that evil exists?

This is the essential question that John Milton is trying to answer with this poem, and for him, it goes back to Adam and Eve making a poor decision. So then he had to explain WHY Adam and Eve made that bad decision, which is why he spends so much time writing about Satan.

Make sure if you weren’t here and this confuses you, try this summary from Shmoop.

IV – 11/26/2012

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Get ready for the hardest thing you’ll ever read. Worse than Shakespeare! Harder than a stereo manual! Even more difficult than trying to file your taxes! It’s John Milton and Paradise Lost!

Make sure that you get the notes from the background information from a classmate for the John Milton background and the first 75 lines.

Big ideas to remember: free will, pride, invocation, topic statement, epic, Adam and Eve, inversion, run ons

If God is all powerful and all good, how is it that evil exists?

 

5/8/2012

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Today, we finished Paradise Lost (again, if you read Shmoop, you only need to read to the bullet about the Read Sea). If you missed this information, please make sure that you still get the notes/highlighting from another student.

Afterwards, we did the assignment in LMS entitled “Satan’s Letter to his Girlfriend.” You can characterize Satan however you like, but you need to make sure that you answer the questions accurately from the story of Paradise Lost. There is a drop box for this in LMS when you are done!

Hugs and kisses!
xoxx0

1/26/2012

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Make sure you download the Beowulf text in LMS. It’s long (29 pages!), but print it to OneNote or Journal Writer. Today, we read The Wrath (Anger) of Grendel and took notes.

Then we talked about how the Christians believed in Free Will while the Pagans believed in Fate. So Cap’n gave us a list of quotes and we had to sort them into fate/free will categories.

Lastly, she gave us a cartoon that we had to narrate.

Make sure that you use at least three words from *her* Word Storm and that it narrates a story of some kind.

Locus of Control

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Today in Vistas Visits, we took a quiz to find out where my locus of control is. Here are my results:

Locus of Control Test Results
Internal Locus (73%) Individual believes that their life is defined more by their decisions and internal drive.
External Locus (27%) Individual believes that their life is defined more by genetics, environment, fate, or other external factors.

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