1. Unit 17: Philosophy
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2. Class Schedule
Next week: Quiz, Review for Final Exam

3. Final Exam The Final Exam will be Monday, June 11, at 4:00 PM.
I will tell you the classroom next week.

4. Have you heard of these philosophers?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Rene Descartes

5. Plato and Aristotle, Greek philosophers, in the famous painting, School of Athens.

6. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave p. 265
allegory: a story in which what happens is being compared to something else that is similar and unstated.

7. Discussion Questions
Would you want to be released from the cave? Why or why not?
What is like the cave in our world?
How is the way you understand the world, your ideas and beliefs, shaped by the actions of others?
Who has the power to shape your ideas and beliefs? In what ways is this good and in what ways is it not so good?

8. Quiz Details 10 questions Word Pretest, Units 14, 15, 16, 17
Idioms, Units 14, 15, 17
Drawing inferences (know basic facts)
One analogy

9. Idioms: Honesty / Directness – p. 258
is two-faced
tells it like it is
talks behind her friend’s back
bared her soul
looked her mother in the eye
lay her cards on the table 9

10. Word Pretest, p. 254 A B C A B C

11. Article Reading and Questions
Read the article, “Main Schools of Thought in Chinese Philosophy.”
Write 5 questions for a classmate to answer on a separate sheet of paper.
You can write 2 types of questions: 1) Find the answer without choices 2) True or False

12. Read, “What is Critical Thinking and Why is it Important?”
True or False:
1) If you think independently, you are definitely thinking critically.
2) Critical thinking skills are only important for certain professions.
3) Learning to think critically can improve your oral English.
4) Exposing fallacies and bad reasoning are constructive tasks.
5) Without critical thinking, we can easily fall behind in the world of business.
F, F, T, F, T

13. Homework
Study for the quiz!