For Thursday (Day 4), your assignment remains the same.
For Friday (Day 5), you still have Wednesday's assignment.
Those of you who are behind on the STP writing should take advantage of this day to begin catching up. Also, if you have fewer than five pages written, I want you to make a plan in writing for completing the draft by March 28 or March 29.
In class on Thursday and Friday, we will finish analyzing the two TED talks we've watched, and we will conclude our discussion of Unflattening. In addition, we will go over the AP exam's synthesis essay. (Although it looks similar to a DBQ, the sythesis essay is different—your argument takes priority, and you must use the sources to develop your argument.) On Monday and Tuesday, you will write this kind of essay primarily about Unflattening, along with Donald Hoffman's TED talk ("Do We See Reality As It Is?") and some related readings in Approaching Great Ideas. You will not receive the question in advance, but the readings are listed below. You might find it helpful to complete these readings over the weekend, but I will not require you to do so. Anything that isn't clear about this assignment will be clarified in class on Thursday and Friday; I just wanted to give you a heads up.
Oliver Sacks, "The Mind's Eye," pp. 236-241
Michio Kaku, "Physics of the Impossible," pp. 252-260
John Dewey, "Morality and Education," pp. 400-402
Transcript of Donald Hoffman's TED talk
If you want to preview the synthesis essay, go here.
