Homework:
Choosing the Right Word unit 15 and context clues
Quiz on Friday
Today:
Buzzword
Discussion
Work time from discussion ideas.
I asked the kids if humans really do scapegoat. Would we really react the way Figure One says we will react in the story? I asked them to explain three questions. The questions go from a scientific answer to a superstitious answer. When we are faced with something we don't know about, we feel compelled to find an answer, even if we have to make one up. We move into the realm of imagination.
Three levels of questions:
What we know- Why does the sun move across the sky?
Sort of know- How does weather work? Why do we get rain and hurricanes?
Don’t know- Why do bad things happen to good people?
What types of answers do we give?
This is Rod Serling's intro to The Twilight Zone:
"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone."
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