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Socratic Discussion Class(See the Syllabus and 2014 Syllabus)Socratic discussions. Dialog vs debate. http://www.socraticseminars.com/education/whatare.html Ask good questions*. Historical emphasis and setting: Ancient history of Greece and Rome. Timelines, map assignment, word studies (plutarch has difficult words) Topics: philosophy, history, art, math & science (greek "music") Goals of Education: Read like a lawyer, write like an author, speak like a stateman, calculate like an entrepreneur, think like a philosopher. Books:Homer's Odyssey Plato's Republic Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone Also, pick a book from the list of Ancient Classic Books (or propose another), read it, and give an oral report on it. Also good: Edith Hamilton's Mythology Writing Assignments:Annotations and Notetaking Writing Process Hero Report Comparison of Themistocles and Camillus Literary Analysis of Sophocles Time and Space (Maps and Timelines)Greek Maps
Timelines and important dates
Document Studies:Greek Mythology Hercules from pseudo-Apollodorus The Athenian Constitution Pericles' Funeral Oration (from Thucydides) [relevant pictures] --- compare with Gettysberg Address Lycurgus from Plutarch with Constitution of the Lacedaemonians from Xenophon Plato, Apology (awesome!) Aristotle, Poetics (translated by Butcher or Bywater) Aesop Fables Nicomachean Ethics (see also 20 page excerpt) after "let no one ignorant of geometry..." Compare Aristotle On a Good Wife with Proverbs 31:10-31 Life of Epaminondas by Cornelius Nepos Livy-Tarquins -- The end of the Roman Monarchy Plutarch, On Nature (overview of Greek natural philosophy) http://www.unrv.com/ has very impressive analysis and history of Rome. They should publish a book. Code of Hammarabi Cicero, De Officiis Cincinnatus (livy 3) Augustus on himself: Res Gestae Divi Augusti The Enchiridion by Epictetus (The hand-book, a summary of Epictetus's Stoic philosophy) Lectures:"Know Thyself" (Delphi) -- personality profiles, MTBI: http://sminds.com/cgi-bin/mbti.pl or http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp "Moderation in all things" -- Delphi: "Nothing to Excess" "Let no one ignorant of Geometry enter here" math & Euclid (also "there is no royal road to geometry") "Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils" Plato, Socrates and philosophy Athens vs Sparta, Peloponnesian War Art / Music (the muses) Grammer, Logic, Rhetoric Types of Logic and Rhetoric: dialectic, etc; fallacies Poetry and Prose (read a Bradbury short story), mechanics: rhyme, rhythm, lyricism, repetition, consonsance, etc; symbolism, allusion, simile, analogy, etc. Compare major philosophical schools: cynics, epicureans, stoics, skeptics, sophists (ref 1) (Hellenistic Philosophy); Thomas Jefferson - I am an Epicurean Virtue - as defined by Plutarch and other ancients Wisdom - compare Greek definition with Hebrew and/or Christian Compare Greek and Roman mindsets Write like an Author:Coach writing process. Write down ideas learned from document study in class, require outline, draft, final, on following weeks. (accelerate as as year progresses?) Journal or other notes on what they are learning. Who is the audience? What do you want them to know? feel? do? Writing assignments:
Read like a Lawyer:practice skills. Word studies. Write notes. diagram ideas. speed reading/skimming? Comparing and Connecting. Quiet and pondering. practice with: bible, euclid, something philosophical, zeno, poetry Note taking template. (trifold bookmark? Read a legal brief, notice how precise their definitions are (do not write like a lawyer!) Symbolism (with lawyers?! e.g. habeas corpus) Plutarch - Theseus document study: lots of words to look up, historical links, geography, etc. Think like a Philosopher:Ask yourself questions! Thinking skills: concentration, logic (inductive/deductive), ponder, inspiration, analysis vs synthesis, grouping, identify & challenge assumptions. Seeing patterns and systems. Learning skills and styles. Fallacies, thinking traps, cognitive biases Calculate like an Entrepreneur:Compare and Contrast. Follow a line of logic. Estimate. Compare "calculate like a mathematician" with "calculate like an entrepreneur". Value instead of price/count/amount/number. Speak like a Statesman:Orals. Presentation. Attributes of a leader. Speaking out for beliefs. Enduring in the face of trials. Principle-based. Compare Obama vs Bush? Elocution (from tjed forum) Point out the elements of great replies quoted in plutarch: analogy, symbolism, placation, boldness but not insolence Character traits of a Statesman (according to LEMI):
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