Philosophy in the News (PITN)

Teacher Name: Mr. Andersen Student Name: ______________________________________________________ Date________________ Per___ Source of Ar6cle: _________________________________ Topic:__________________________________________ Philosophical Issue:_______________________________________________________________________________ Direc&ons: Select a news item or other current event that interests you and clearly raises one Philosophical Issue (PI) related to our current study (check the bulleted lists for each theme on the Syllabus Details page of your syllabus). Be sure to research the topic from quality sources like the NYTimes, NPR, The Washington Post, or Student News Daily (www.studentnewsdaily.com). Philosophy Now (see Mr. As archive on CR shared folder), www.Philosophytalk.org, The Philosophers Magazine (www.philosophersnet.com), and Scien;c American Mind can also be excellent resources. Find one ar6cle that best raises the PI. Be prepared to 1) summarize briey the ar6cle/topic, 2) explain exactly how the topic raises the PI, and 3) present a quality guiding ques6on that provokes eec6ve discussion on the PI. The goal is to provide prac6ce for the class on understanding and analyzing the PIs we study, so you are beUer prepared to write and speak about them. Finally, 4) you are responsible for facilita6ng the discussion as per the rubric below. CATEGORY
Summarization of Article

Student briefly and Student describes what succinctly describes the article is about in a what the article is about, fairly clear manner, providing only the info providing the relevant relevant for the PI info for the PI discussion. discussion.

Student summarizes the Student has great article fairly well, but the difficulty summarizing the topics relationship to article and/or the topics the stated PI is fuzzy. relationship to the stated PI is completely unclear.

Student accurately and Student identifies 1-2 Identifies Philosophical Issue clearly identifies 1-2 PIs PIs in the proper

Student has some Student has much trouble trouble identifying PIs in identifying PIs in the in the proper context of context of the article's the proper context of proper context of the the article's topic. topic, with some help the article's topic, or article's topic, or needs a Student clearly shows from class. Student needs help from class. lot of help from class. how these issues relate shows how these issues Some attempt to show Little or no attempt to to IB Philosophy's relate to IB Philosophy's how these issues relate show how these issues syllabus and our current syllabus and our current to IB Philosophy's relate to IB Philosophy's study. study. syllabus and our current syllabus and our current study. study. Student has some Student has much trouble identifying 1-2 difficulty identifying 1-2 guiding Qs for discussion on 1 guiding Qs for guiding Qs for discussion discussion on 1 PI philosophical issue discussion on 1 PI on 1 PI raised by the raised by the article's raised by the article's raised by the article's article's topic, or his/her topic. The Qs clearly topic. The Qs relate to topic. The Qs may attempts show little effort relate to IB Philosophy's IB Philosophy's syllabus relate to IB Philosophy's or imagination. The Qs syllabus and our current and our current study syllabus and our current might relate to our study. fairly clearly. study, but it takes some syllabus and current work to see how. Could study, but it takes a lot of use more effort or work to see how. imagination. Student expertly leads discussion on the questions, inspiring others to extend and/or to clarify their thinking on the PI(s). Student actively leads Student has some Student struggles to lead discussion on the trouble leading discussion--or fails to do questions, occasionally discussion on the so--on the questions, helping others to extend questions, rarely never really helping and/or to clarify their helping others to extend others to extend and/or to thinking on the PI(s). and/or to clarify their clarify their thinking on the thinking on the PI (s). PI(s).

Formulates Guiding Student succinctly and Student identifies 1-2 lucidly identifies 1-2 guiding Qs for Question

Leads Discussion

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