1. Concepts Concepts – vocabulary of thought – vehicles that we use to think General concepts – organize your experience, bring order and intelligibility to your life Develop expertise Structure of concepts – identify, distinguish, relate to your experience Group aspects of experience by distinctions – if not, everything in world would have a different with its own individual name ie. Pen They use ink They are used for writing They are held with a hand

2. Victor, Virgil, Vincent, Vito, and Vance are brothers performing in a five man traveling circus known as the little big top. They are in no particular order, a clown, a juggler, an acrobat, a magician, and a strong man. Whenever they perform, their acts appear in the same order. The clown comes after Victor and Vito, but before the magician. The acrobat comes on third. Neither the strong man nor Vincent is the first or the last to perform. Virgil, Victor, and Vito perform in that order. Which brother does what act, and in what order do they perform?

3. The way to solve problems like these is to create charts for each variable and then use the process of elimination to come to a conclusion. The order of the performers is the easiest. We know from the first clue that Victor and Vito do not perform in fourth or fifth spots, and from the last clue we know they do not perform first. So the order they perform is Virgil, Victor Vito, Vincent (clue three), and Vance (by elimination). Vincent must be the clown and Vance the Magician by clue 1. Vito must be the Acrobat by clue 2. Victor is the strong man by clue 3, and that leaves Virgil to be the Juggler.

4. Group things – similarities – classifying Forming concepts – applying to organize your experience, make sense of what is happening, anticipate what may happen in the future Generalizing – common properties – form concepts Interpreting – finding examples Process of developing concepts – constant back-and- forth between Applying concepts

5. Identify additional requirements – define the concept more sharply – necessary and sufficient Fruit or vegetable: tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, and zucchini, avocados, green, red, and yellow peppers, peapods, pumpkins Defining concepts – identify the necessary properties/requirements the determine when the concept can be applied; boundaries – what conditions must be met in order for something to qualify as an example of the concept Technical description or example: a smile is a facial expression formed by flexing those muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth.facial expressionmusclesmouth

6. DOES IT HAVE SEEDS? If the answer is yes, then technically, you have a FRUIT. A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit. Mind map – visual presentation of ways concepts can be related to one another Flexible and effective tool 1 st – organization grows naturally 2 nd – organization can be easily revised 3 rd – relationships 4 th - decide

8. Assign #17: pg. 264, Questions for Analysis – (due 2/25) Assign#18: pg. 269, Thinking Activity, 7.4, 1-4 – (due 2/25)‏ Assign#19: pg. 274, Questions for Analysis, – (due 2/25)‏