Tuesday, February 07, 2012

February 7

We went through key events in WWII today by watching "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb". You have detailed notes on WWII based on this video, so make sure that you read them! You also had a little bit of TOK presentation group time today. I am not assigning homework tonight, so that you can read the various TOK reading packages that I gave you in class today. You should have some TOK time tomorrow, so make sure that you come armed with some great ideas of some potential "knowledge issues" for your area of knowledge.

We talked a little bit about your timelines today in class. We then moved on to looking at the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. We also had some interesting discussion centered around the view of human nature. We also looked at some characteristics of the Enlightenment (view of the universe governed by natural laws, Deism, free inquiry, empiricism, etc.). Tomorrow, we'll start looking at key thinkers of the Enlightenment.

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