---
title: "01.08.08"
date: 2008-01-08
url: https://learningischange.com/2008/01/08/010808/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 01.08.08

Cores 1+4:

- What perfect books did your parents talk to you about? How were they different than your own?
- Write-On: How can one person’s utopia be another person’s dystopia?
- What are the different types of dystopias we encounter, or could encounter if we try to reach utopia?
- What would be your own personal dystopia given modern circumstances?
- How does your personal dystopia compare to that of [Harrison Bergeron](http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html)?
- Extensions:

- Is equality a virtue? Should we be striving for it? Why or why not?

Core 2:

- Write-on: How can social action break the law and still be considered okay?
- Level 2 Words
- Watch exerpts from A Meditation on the Speed Limit:

- How can this be considered a form of Social Action?
- Is this an important movement to lead?
- How is your social action like this?
- Are all social actions rebellious by nature?

- Extensions:
- Continue to work on SAP (Due next Friday).

Core 3:

- Write-on (to be turned in): Which of Pink’s 21st century senses do you most exemplify and which one do you wish you were better at? Why?
- How much do you believe that your physical brain affects your beliefs?
- What would you call Pink’s belief structure? (What kind of -Ism?)
- What are beliefs based upon?
- What kinds of beliefs do you think that [the WFS hold](http://www.wfs.org/Nov-Dec%20Files/TOPTEN.htm)?

- Extension: Should we look toward the future or to the past for our beliefs?

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