9/15/16  Thursday Agenda


Watch Cartoon Version of "Allegory of the Cave"
Cartoon version of "A of the C"

Discuss HW Questions 1-5 with your elbow partner.

Answer questions 6-11 on the same paper with your partner.

6. What is Plato's attitude, deduced from the allegory, towards the so-called man?
7.  Do we acquire our opinions through the influence of others? Explain.
8. Plato says it is difficult to go back down into the darkness after one has seen the light, but one must go. Why?
9.  How are we to know that this reality is realer than that of the caves?  What if WE ARE in the shadows?
10.  How are human beings' knowledge of goodness, reality and truth always limited by our fear of new ideas and new perspectives?
11. Do you agree with Plato that the intellectual is doomed always to be at odds with popular belief and thinking?  If so, Why?  If not, Why?

Discuss answers as a class

Collect "Allegory of a Cave" Homework and Classwork Questions

HW=
1. Study Lit Terms and Vocabulary for Unit 3 quiz this Friday 9/16/16

2. Read your LC text and do your LC task for this week.