Fifth Graders started back into programming last week with a SEMINAR on a Mystery Program: What symbol, shape, or word will Racer robot draw if you enter this program?
1. The Great Fire in the Northern Forest
(A Tale to Begin Seminar) ……………………. 1
2. About Revenge
by Francis Bacon . ………………………… 3
3. Diamond Painting in Red, Yellow, and Blue
by Piet Mondrian …………………………. 5
4. Two Women and a Baby
1 Kings 3: 16-27,from the Bible . ………………. 7
5. A Case Study in Medical Ethics …………………… 9
6. A Paradox of Motion
by Zeno of Elea …………………………. 11
To earn credit for each Seminar, students will fill in a 5 Ws Seminar TIMELINE for all Readings. Here is the timeline with the first few titles filled in. Students complete the rest.
Please ask at home to find out what your child entered in the Why? Column (the Author’s Message) and the Most Representative Quotations? Column for each reading.
SEMINAR isn’t like other classes. First of all, the teachers are some of the most famous authors, thinkers, leaders, painters, scientists, musicians, and mathematicians who ever lived; second, they are usually dead. And since they aren’t there to tell us, no one has the final, or right, answer to questions about their books or paintings or songs or ideas. So it’s up to all of us to work together to discover things we might never discover on our own; and so gain a very deep and multifaceted understanding of each author’s or creator’s ideas. The works we will study in Seminar are interesting, difficult, and often profound; they have changed the world. They are worth reading more than once!
Seminar Hints
Before & During Your Reading:
During Seminar:
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