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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