Over the last few weeks of school (middle school is almost over!) and during our philosophy unit, it would be great if you could really start trying to make your reading matter to your thinking.
I want to read blog posts that move from the book to larger philosophical questions (ones that would work for a Socrates Cafe, for example). How can you connect what you're wondering about in your book to what you're wondering about in the world?
Read these - they're all pretty good places to start - although all of them could have delved deeper into the questions they're asking; the philoso-raptor wants to see you trying to answer your own questions!!
Ames considers the nature of war:
http://elwriter.blogspot.com/2011/05/finally-i-am-on-lastum-oh-book.html
Yacine questions the origins of evil:
http://theunicornshorn.blogspot.com/2011/05/sold.html
Greg thinks about the place of faith in philosophy, inspired by a single phrase in his reading:
http://gilldon.blogspot.com/2011/05/v-for-vendetta-la-voie-la-verite-et-la.html
