ToK Homework

Note: All home­work is due at the begin­ning of class on the day men­tioned. Home­work is not accepted dur­ing class. You must com­plete all home­work assigned in class and always have all notes and home­work with you in class.

March

1. Please read the fol­low­ing, to help you with your pre­sen­ta­tions: Wool­man (Your Read­ing)
Down­loaded 55 times I should be able to check, either your own (indi­vid­ual) notes on the read­ing or see that you have a high­lighted copy of this read­ing to show me (on March 15th).

2. Your ToK Essay out­line is due on Thurs­day, March 15. This is a final dead­line. You should fin­ish it much ear­lier, if you can. And your essay itself is due (just a few days later), on Mon­day, March 19th.

Feb­ru­ary

1. Your ToK Pre­sen­ta­tions are due on March 4th.

2. Your CAS Plans and Andy Fletcher Mind Maps are due on Fri­day, Feb 3rd.

3. Write 200 – 300 words in response to one of the fol­low­ing ques­tions (Due Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 10th).

a) Is Kuhn’s the­ory plau­si­ble? In sit­u­a­tions such as the Ein­stein / New­ton one men­tioned
above, has a rev­o­lu­tion really taken place?
b)  New­ton­ian Mechan­ics still ‘works’ in most sit­u­a­tions. Is it still ‘true’?
c) “The power of sci­ence derives from the fact that it com­bines rea­son in the form of
math­e­mat­ics with expe­ri­ence in the form of obser­va­tional data.” (Lage­maat 239) Explain
how this quote uni­fies ratio­nal­ist and empiri­cist per­spec­tives.
d) In your school sci­ence lessons, you have prob­a­bly been taught ‘out-of-date’ the­o­ries (e.g of
atomic struc­ture in chem­istry, or New­ton­ian mechan­ics in physics). Why do you think this is
done, and is it helpful?

Novem­ber

1. A few things are com­ing up with CAS:

Your CAS Con­sul­ta­tion (inter­view) needs to be done dur­ing the week of Novem­ber 28-Dec 1. This is the first for grade 11. These inter­views need to be noted on the CAS progress form that I have for you (in your fold­ers). Also, CAS Pro­pos­als for any­thing done dur­ing Decem­ber Hol­i­day are due on Decem­ber 12th. As well any (and all) paper­work for out­side CAS activ­i­ties are due to Mrs Mares on Novem­ber 25th by 4pm. This includes: 1) Yellow sheets signed by super­vi­sors, 2) Attendance: with hours totalled and signed and ver­i­fied by super­vi­sors, and 3) A copy of any cer­tifi­cates if applicable.

2. Again you are work­ing on your rea­son and emo­tion pre­sen­ta­tions (which will start on Novem­ber 16th) and your TOK Essay (for Q2) is due on Mon­day, Novem­ber 21st (this is changed from the pre­vi­ous Fri­day, to give you more time). (And your CAS reflec­tion #3 is due on Novem­ber 17th). Here is the mod­i­fied rubric I’ll be using to mark your TOK Essay.

3. Please enter your semes­ter 1 reflec­tion grades here.

Octo­ber

1. Don’t for­get to hand in your CAS reflec­tion #2 on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 20th (in class).

2. Please read this arti­cle over the hol­i­day week and be ready to sub­mit a 200 word response in class on Mon­day, Octo­ber 31st.  Your response should involved orig­i­nal (crit­i­cal think­ing on your part). Please also make sure you are clear what I mean by “crit­i­cal think­ing.”

3. Be advised that Novem­ber 25th is the dead­line for the paper­work for all out­side CAS activ­i­ties. At that point you will need a the show­ing your atten­dance in the activ­ity, ver­i­fied by the out­side super­vi­sor:  It will either be signed by each day or a note at the bot­tom stat­ing they can ver­ify all atten­dance. A yel­low sheet (avail­able out­side Mrs Marez’  office) signed and filled in by the out­side super­vi­sor. Those are due to Mrs Marez on Nov. 25th by 4pm. –Please look at the cal­en­der and decide when your last les­son will be to get sig­na­tures. You might actu­ally need to get all of your sig­na­tures in per­haps 2 weeks before this, depend­ing on how often you see your supervisor.

4. Some upcom­ing due dates: (Do note that you are going to need to say very orga­nized in order to stay on top of all of these dates, as they are all close together).

The rea­son and emo­tion pre­sen­ta­tion will start on Novem­ber 16th.

CAS reflec­tion #3 is ude on Novem­ber 17th.

Your TOK Essay (for Q2) is due on Novem­ber 18th

Sep­tem­ber

1. As we talked about in class, your CAS pro­posal forms are due tomor­row (Fri­day, Sept 2) before 4pm to Mrs Mares Manton.

• This is for any­thing that is out­side school. 
If you miss this dead­line, it is likely it will not go on Semes­ter 1 report, which will be a prob­lem for many of you. It has been in the Gazette and it is on the dead­line sheet you received.
• Make sure you have dou­ble checked your plans and that you will have 2 com­po­nents in 2 areas by end of Semes­ter 1.
• Your CAS plans need to be signed by me (Mr Woods) and filed in your fold­ers (in K403)–this is part of IB doc­u­men­ta­tion that is needed at the end of Year 12.If you want to go down and speak to Mrs Mares, you need to do this before class time.

2. (Changed/Updated) Be ready for a Quiz on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 9th –on every­thing we’ve learned so far, includ­ing the terms and tests of knowl­edge given on the hand­out in class today (Sept 1).

3. Your essay is due on Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 12th. You will want to have com­pleted your Intro­duc­tion book­let before you do the essay. You should also have a look at this short video, which just came out in the news today.

4. As I explained in class, we won’t have a les­son on Thurs­day (UN) and on Fri­day and Mon­day I will not be in school. How­ever, there is an assign­ment that we have to get started while I’m away. Mr Hell­ner is going to give you this assign­ment on Fri­day because I won’t see you again until next Thurs­day and we need to get started, so you’ll have enough time. Please pri­or­i­tize this pre­sen­ta­tion assign­ment over the Senses task (poster assign­ment) that we started to orga­nize in class on Mon­day. Don’t worry about the poster assign­ment until our next class together (on Thurs­day, Sept 22nd).

5. Please read through the rest of the Per­cep­tion hand­out that I gave you in class and spend a half hour or so reflect­ing on some of the dis­cus­sion ques­tions in writ­ing. We will how­ever still spend a lit­tle more time on this together in class.

6. Your CAS reflec­tions are due on Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 22nd. 250 words typed. These must be done on the CAS tem­plate, which is avail­able in our class resources.  Please hand it in on time. If you hand in two of them late, you’ll have to do a Sat­ur­day deten­tion, so be care­ful. If for UN–only one reflec­tion of 500 words–using any ques­tions from reflec­tions 1–2. I will be mark­ing you on your effort, how much you have put into the CAS activ­i­ties and how con­sid­er­ate you are in your reflec­tions. Again remem­ber that you need 2 com­po­nents over 2 dif­fer­ent areas by Semes­ter 1 (out­side activ­i­ties fin­ish by Novem­ber 25th).

6. Please read this note I’ve writ­ten you about how to write good notes.

7. For home­work, please make sure you have reviewed the hand­out on knowl­edge issues and filled in the blanks. If you are unsure of what makes a good KI please come and talk to me. Also, please con­tinue to work on your TOK pre­sen­ta­tions. Here is a book­let to help you, if you’re still strug­gling with your KI

8. Your first TOK pre­sen­ta­tions will start on Mon­day, Octo­ber 5th.

9. Please respond in your notes to one of the ‘Dis­cus­sion Point’ ques­tions and one of the ‘Home­work’ ques­tions. You should write around 2 nor­mal A4 pages of reflec­tions please.

10. Please make sure you con­tribute at least 2 def­i­n­i­tions (or quo­ta­tions) on the class glos­sary before by the end of September.

11. Please read this note about the parent-teacher con­fer­ences. (I hope you are able to attend them your­self.) I had wanted to give you this hand­out in class, but we ran out of time today. If you would like to fill in the hand­out (attached to the note) before the parent-teacher day that would be great. Oth­er­wise, we can go through it together next week, after your presentations.

August

1. Please read the ToK Class Expectations

2. Please begin work­ing on your TOK jour­nals. You should be writ­ing about 1 page per week. You are basi­cally look­ing for knowl­edge claims in your read­ing (school and non-school) and are look­ing at the ways we jus­tify things.

3. Your TOK para­graph is due at the begin­ning of class on Fri­day, August 25th. This is based on the arti­cles and infor­ma­tion on pages 98 and 99 of your text book. The ques­tion is 4(a) and 4(b) in your Intro­duc­tion hand­out. The four parts of the para­graph are graded out of 3, 2, 3 and 2 respectively.

4. Please com­plete 6 (a), 6(b) and 6© for home­work. Due Mon­day August 29th.

5. Make sure you are tak­ing the time to write in your ToK Jour­nal. This jour­nal is not a reg­u­lar jour­nal. It is where you try­ing to make ToK-type obser­va­tions on things you’re learn­ing in your classes, things you read in the ToK Course Com­pan­ion, in news­pa­pers you read and on expe­ri­ences you have. Look for knowl­edge claims and explore what evi­dence is being used to sup­port them. Also don’t for­get to bring this to class every les­son along with your notes.