---
title: "04.10.08"
date: 2008-04-10
url: https://learningischange.com/2008/04/10/041008/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 04.10.08

Cores 1+4:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080410-rpdtb9khsdbc3u1m5m1911mpn8.jpg?w=1225)
- Read chapter 2 of animal farm:

- Why is it so easy to overthrow Jones?
- What decisions do the animals make that go along with Old Major’s speech? Go against it?
- Is the rebellion just?

- Extend the concept of commandments to your own Utopia.
- What commandments are essential?
- What types of commandments are specific enough?

- Extensions:
- Write your commandments onto your utopia wiki page.

Core 2:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080410-pfwgpi67dkpmsaf6wyxhcs14wt.jpg?w=1225)
- Rev-it-up
- Read Chapter 5 of Animal Farm

- What decisions are being made that go against Old Major’s original vision?
- How do the animals become more human?

- Extensions:
- What safeguards do you have in place that will ensure that your society will not become like the society that you rebelled against in the first place?

Core 3:

- Exemplary comments:

- [Snipinshoe](http://sites.google.com/a/academyofdiscovery.com/discovery-isms/Danism)
- [pepperr](http://sites.google.com/a/academyofdiscovery.com/discovery-isms/Carrie-s-Belief-Statement-Essay)
- [wrpdbyondrcgnicion](http://sites.google.com/a/academyofdiscovery.com/discovery-isms/Austinism)
- [teidoublegaer and misterpirate7](http://sites.google.com/a/academyofdiscovery.com/discovery-isms/Liberalism)

- Discuss Iron Mills questions:
- What is so meaningful about the sculpture?
- What is the “moral” of this story?
- Why should we heed this moral?
- What is lost if we head into another time of rapid growth without concern for human dignity?

- Extensions:
- Comment on 2 Belief statement essays that have 1 or no comments on them. (If you can’t find any, look for one that has fewer comments)