Watch Cartoon Version of "Allegory of the Cave"
Discuss HW Questions 1-5 with your elbow partner.
Answer questions 6-11 on the same paper with your partner.
6. What is Plato's attitude, deduced from the allegory, towards the so-called man?
7. Do we acquire our opinions through the influence of others? Explain.
8. Plato says it is difficult to go back down into the darkness after one has seen the light, but one must go. Why?
9. How are we to know that this reality is realer than that of the caves? What if WE ARE in the shadows?
10. How are human beings' knowledge of goodness, reality and truth always limited by our fear of new ideas and new perspectives?
11. Do you agree with Plato that the intellectual is doomed always to be at odds with popular belief and thinking? If so, Why? If not, Why?
Discuss answers as a class
Collect "Allegory of a Cave" Homework and Classwork Questions
World Literature Book Analysis Information and handout
HW=
1. Review directions for the Book Analysis Assignment and brainstorm about other students with whom you would like to work. Book Choice and partner group are due on Friday.
2. Study Vocab Unit 2 words for quiz on Friday
3. Remind your parents that BTS night is tomorrow, Thursday 9/3 from 5:00-7:00.
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