First Day! Values and Cynicism

Set Up Starters (10 min)
Every student creates a Google Doc labeled with “Full Name Humanities Starters,” and shares it with me.  Make sure to give me permission to comment!

1. Every starter should be clearly labeled with the Starter # and date
2. Newest starter goes at the TOP of the page

 
Starter 1 (20 min)
Syllabus: Go to Lori’s DP, and find the Syllabus page.  Read closely!  Then explore the rest of Lori’s DP.  Bookmark it!

1. What are you most excited about for Humanities this year?
2. What are you apprehensive/nervous about?  What can I do to help alleviate those fears?
3. What questions do you have?  List them!

 
Pair/share, try to answer each other’s questions.  Then come back as a whole class, I will answer any remaining questions.
 
Class Values (40 min)
Collaborative activity to determine our shared class values.  We will build on this more tomorrow!
 
The Habits of Highly Cynical People (30 min)
Read and annotate this article—it will be the basis for a Socratic seminar that is connected to our critical thinking goals for the course this year.  Make sure to mark:

1. Places where you are confused
2. Important or beautiful sentences/ideas
3. Vocab (look it up!)
4. Questions you have
5. HINT…you’re probably going to want to look up a definition of cynicism!

We will coach tomorrow, so have this ready to go.
 
HOMEWORK:
Finish reading and annotating “The Habits of Highly Cynical People”.  DUE:  Start of class, Tuesday