Literary+Philosophy

=Philosophy and Composition Course Description= toc

=High Honors contract= If you are taking the course at the High Honors level, you will need to print this and you and your parents will need to sign it and turn in to me by the end of September. You may NOT change levels. If you are taking the course at the Honors level you need not do anything.

=** Quarter One and Two Materials **=
 * Philosophy and Composition Articles ** and High Honors Articles

=Rhetorical Tools Materials and Articles=

=What is philosophy? articles=

=Philosophical Tools articles=

__**Presentation Articles Quarter Two**__

=Articles Quarter Three and Four=

Article Choices for Quarters 3 and 4

Semester Exam Prep

=Sample First Drafts=



Jon Stewart on Three Kinds of Bullshit

=Branches of Philosophy= (According to Mr. Woodruff)

=Resources:=

(Students are expected to refer to these sources for clarification.)
= __[|Philosopher Timeline]__ =

[|Wordnet] (On-line mega-thesaurus)

[|Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

[|Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

[|Oxford English Dictionary] (School username and password required)

= [|JSTOR] =

[|PhilPapers] username is gwoodruff at the old montclair email address montclair1

Maslow's Hierarchy of needs

Philosophy Comics

[|Existential Comics] [|Dead Philosophers in Heaven]

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=Revision Presentation Assignment=

Each student will prepare a 5-minute presentation on the revised paper, explaining important changes to content and style: why that paper was chosen, what needed to be changed, could be changed, and what did and didn’t work, and what was learned about writing in the process. Each presenter will read before and after passages to illustrate changes, besides talking about the revision process and the intended effect and goals of the new draft.

=Image Essay=

Ways of Seeing video, by John Berger et al.

Berger Essays

The Century of the Self Part 1: Happiness Machines Part 2: The Engineering of Consent