Assignments

August 2010: Weekly Journal Entries

You are required to post a journal entry every week in which you reflect on what you have read, heard, thought, and discussed in TOK during the past week. The deadline for these journal entries to be posted on the class blog is Wednesday evening. I urge you to write your journal entries as soon after the Monday lesson as you can, so that everything will be fresh in your mind. Taking notes will help, too.

Post your journal entries on this blog, and remember to label each post with the category “Journal”.

For this first journal entry, you might comment on starting the course; on the TOKCast podcast; on our first two lessons; or on the beginning of Plato’s “Meno”.

March 2010: Oral Presentations

Timeline

• Friday, March 5: Graphic organizers for presentations completed. Each student gives a photocopy to me. Official IB “Presentation planning document” (TK/PPD) distributed to students.
• Thursday, March 11 & Friday, March 12: Students must submit completed TK/PPD by the end of the lesson on Friday. Once the TK/PPD is submitted, students may use the remaining class time to work on their presentations, or to study for other subjects and prepare for their mock exams. I will be available to help students one-on-one as they continue to work on their presentations.
• March 15-26: Grade 12 Mock Exams
• Thursday, April 1: TOK Oral Presentations begin
• Friday, April 2: TOK class begins at 8:30, immediately after homeroom, to allow more time for presentations.
• Thursday, April 8: TOK Oral Presentations continue
• Friday, April 9: TOK class begins at 8:30, immediately after homeroom, to allow more time for presentations. All presentations must be completed by the end of the lesson at 9:55.
• Saturday, April 10: Deadline for electronic submission of marks for TOK Orals.

Order of Presentations

1. Ah Reum
2. Savannah
3. Andrew
4. Bénédicte
5. Friedrich
6. Riccardo
7. Huezin
8. Yi-Han (Anita)
9. Pin-Hsuan (Vivian)
10. Huey Tyan
11. Sarah
12. Luke
13. Paul
14. Si Hui
15. Yee Jean
16. Guang Zheng (Greg)
17. Yu-Cheng (Albert)

December 2009: What’s Your Story?

Our view of the world, including our beliefs, values, and attitudes about almost everything, may be shaped largely by the story we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it.

The trouble is, we may not be fully aware of that story; it’s so deeply embedded in our views that we may not even see it as a story. We may just see it as ‘the way things are’.

So as an experiment, try to write out your story about ‘the way things are’. Include in your story at least one statement on each of the following topics:

You may add other topics if you wish.

When it’s done, add your response to the TOK Class Blog as a separate post (not a comment!). Please check the Category “What’s Your Story?” before you publish your post. Creative titles are encouraged.

August 2009

Assignments will be posted here so that if you miss class or have an amnesia attack you can check here to see what you’re supposed to be doing.

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