WAYS OF THINKING
Lesson Plans

By Sewellyn Kaplan, Alison Kreider & Michael Eliot

OVERVIEW

LESSON 1A:
What is Philosophy?

LESSON 1B: The Lesson Book
LESSON 1C: Note-taking

LESSON 2A:
Questioning and Socrates

LESSON 2B: It is so, it is not so
LESSON 2C: Marcus Aurelius

LESSON 3A:
Plato, Life and Work

LESSON 3B: Allegory of the Cave

LESSON 4A:
Self-Questioning and Descartes

LESSON 4B: I Think Therefore
LESSON 4C: Nature of "I"

LESSON 5A:
Order, Analysis and Newton

LESSON 5B: Scientific Method
LESSON 5C: Science and Work

LESSON 6A:
Voltaire's Double

LESSON 6B: Skepticism and Voltaire
LESSON 6C: Malcom X Double

LESSON 7A:
Naturalism and Rousseau

LESSON 7B: Civilized Naturally
LESSON 7C: Thoreau and Describing

LESSON 8A:
Individualism and Emerson

LESSON 8B: Just Another Joe
LESSON 8C: Self Determination and Kierkegaard
LESSON 8D: Get What You Want

LESSON 9A:
Subjectivity and Bergson

LESSON 9B: Relativity and Einstein

LESSON 10A:
Activism and Russell

LESSON 10B: Let's Get Active
LESSON 10C: Cesar Chavez

LESSON 11A:
Holistic and Quine

LESSON 11B: Think as One
LESSON 11C: Let's Get it Together

LESSON 12A:
Existentialism and Camus

LESSON 12B: Power of the Spirit
LESSON 12C: "Life is Beautiful"

LESSON 13A:
Deconstructionism and Derrida

LESSON 13B: Piece by Piece
LESSON 13C: Deconstructing the Lion King

LESSON 14A:
Our Own Ways of Thinking

Ways of Thinking

Biographies

Albert Camus Albert Einstein Henri Bergson Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Cesar E. Chavez Henry David Thoreau Jacques Derrida Jean Jacques Rousseau
Marcus Aurelius Ralph Waldo Emerson Plato Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye
Rene Descartes Sir Isaac Newton Socrates Voltaire

Appendix

ACCESS ACADEMIC RUBRIC ACCESS LIFESKILLS RUBRIC Bertrand Russell Biography Lesson 10A from Candide or, The Optimist
Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech
by Cesar E. Chavez
THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN AND THE CHURCH Cesar E. Chavez Deconstructing the Lion King The Lion King Handout
from Walden by Henry David Thoreau WORKSHHET ON "GOUNDHOG DAY" HOW TO LOOK AT A PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION I AM AN INDIVIDUAL Worksheet
KEY PHRASES IN A SKEPTICAL DISCUSSION POSSIBLE PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS POSSIBLE STATEMENTS FOR A SKEPTICAL DISCUSSION SELF-ACTUALIZATION
Worksheet
SKEPTICISM Worksheet LEGEND OF THE STONE SOUP SUMMARY GUIDE TERMS IN PHILOSOPHY
"The Allegory of the Cave" DESCARTES WORKSHEET USEFUL QUOTES "We Real Cool"
From Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind      

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