Getting Philosophical. . .

For your last real blog post (except for a final reflection in June) during our philosophy unit, it would be great if you could really start trying to make your reading matter to your thinking.  Create a synthesis page and write a blog post about your book club book - this will give your philoso-phamily much more to talk about when you meet about your book!

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; try to answer your own questions!!

Here's a great post where Daniel starts to think about choices in the context of war: http://arcofthenoid.blogspot.com/2012/05/philosophy-and-war.html

Life, love, and happiness according to Francesca: http://rottinghyacinths.blogspot.com/2012/05/value-of-life-in-if-i-stay.html

Elsa starts to get into some really interesting ideas about the right way to parent and the nature of knowledge/ignorance.  To make this more philosophical, she could add some of her *own* thinking on these really important issues!
http://elsa5.blogspot.com/2012/05/room-reoccurring-things-in-room.html