PLATO'S CAVE ALLEGORY | THE CRUCIBLE | THE CRUCIBLE ESSAY ALTERNATIVE

PLATO'S CAVE ALLEGORY | THE CRUCIBLE | THE CRUCIBLE ESSAY ALTERNATIVE

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✺ PLATO'S CAVE ALLEGORY | CRITICAL THINKING LECTURE

THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

The Cave Allegory is one of the most famous passages of philosophy, and I think all students should study it sometime during their education.  It asks its readers to liberate themselves from the conventional bonds that chain them. There are many essays, articles, lecture series, etc. on this fundamental text; there are more nuanced and rigorous academic writings and talks available, but my intention is to provide a 90 minute to two-hour lecture for high school, college, and first or second year university students.  

It is a wonderful text to pair with works of fiction; for instance, I teach it alongside The Crucible, The Great Gatsby, Brave New World, 1984, The Giver, Life of Pi, and many others. 

INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT ARE THE FOLLOWING:

✺ An excerpt, five pages, from Plato’s Republic – Book VII the Cave Allegory.  The Republic is one of the Platonic dialogues that I do my VNT assignment on.  I also lecture on Plato’s Theaetetus, Apology, Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, and excerpts from Thucydides.  I will be creating lectures on these thinkers in the coming months. 

✺ 20 pages of teacher notes.  Some of the pages of the text are annotated with these notes. 

✺ The five pages of text are annotated with some of these notes.  I show this to my students on a Whiteboard while I lecture. I do not give these notes out to the students, but rather ask them to write out the parts that are displayed in red.  There are some notes that I discuss but do not expect my students to write down.

✺ The VNT example that is on the cover along with the student’s explanation of the VNT.

✺ There are five long answer/essay suggestions.

✺ Eight questions for discussion that are in the presentation and a separate PDF.

✺ A short test with 10 multiple-choice questions and answers.

✺ The five pages of Plato’s Republic, without my notes, that you may distribute to students before the lecture.

☑ CREATE, EVALUATE, ANALYZE | END OF NOVEL PROJECT THE CRUCIBLE

Are you looking for an interesting project to wrap up your book study? I assign this at the end of the semester instead of a final essay. This assignment will test your students’ writing and editing skills, but also reveal their ability to analyze the more nuanced and symbolic passages from THE CRUCIBLE.

This assignment is perfect as an engaging and creative, culminating activity! Students participate in the top three levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: create, evaluate, and analyze.

This project requires students to think about the imagery and symbolism that are present in the play. Images from a play or movie poster are not allowed. Students are attempting to demonstrate the validity of their interpretation of the text on the slides. 

Students choose quotations from the novel that they want to create, evaluate, and analyze. CREATE: they create an image that represents the quotation. EVALUATE and ANALYZE: students explain the quotation and ask a follow-up question that is not easily answerable with a yes or no. 

INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT ARE THE FOLLOWING:

☑ TWO THE CRUCIBLE TEMPLATES in Google Slides. 

☑ FIVE PAGES OF INSTRUCTIONS for teachers.

☑ THREE PAGES OF INSTRUCTIONS for students.

☑ A VIDEO INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE for students. This video shows how to create an assignment with the novel Life of Pi. I use this video to review the assignment even if I am using another novel as the ideas are the same.

☑ NINE GOOGLE SLIDES to share with your students.  THIS IS THE FILE STUDENTS WORK IN. I ask my students to do three slides for 12 images and 12 text boxes without philosophy and eight images and eight text boxes with philosophy. So the template is copied and pasted twice so you can decide how many slides to send to your students. See the next page for more details. The instructions are editable. Remove any slides you do not wish to use before you assign the project to your students.

☑ AN EXAMPLE OF A TEXT BOX AND IMAGE WITHOUT PHILOSOPHY. (LIFE OF PI)

☑ AN EXAMPLE OF A TEXT BOX AND IMAGE WITH PHILOSOPHY. (THE CRUCIBLE)

☑ EIGHT STUDENT EXAMPLE on THE CRUCIBLE.

☑ One page with information about my products. 

☑ There is a link that you share with your students to use interactively through Classroom™ or other online programs.

☑ Information on Google Slides™ for teachers and students.

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