Utilizing pages 23 – 35 in your Choices text and each other as resources, complete the chart linked below: Where do we go from here
Exercise mitigates stress…but why?
Utilize the resources below with the goal of answering the question posed by this post!
- Read this post from the American Psychological Association (APA) discussing the ways in which exercise can decrease the physiological effects of stress
http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/exercise-stress.aspx
- Watch this quick discussion by Dr. Thompson at UCLA regarding why exercise reduces stress; it has a great cortisol connection:
- We know the Rozenweig, Bennet and Diamond study from Bio psych, but watch this TED talk below where Dr. Wong connects this study we already know to EXERCISE and the brain!!!
**What is the key conceptual commonality that the 3 resources above share????***
NEUROGENESIS
**What do we know about increased brain connectivity in the frontal lobe????***
Grendel Discussion Questions
Download GUIDED QUESTIONS for GRENDEL here: Grendel Guided Questions
https://docs.google.com/document/d/130R9tPNZfIJzQ5d0AioM_IXok_yUiYGL8YQvG71-TEI/edit?usp=sharing
“Grendel” Discussion Chapters 1-2
For discussion and reflection (and maybe a journal entry or two):
- Why does the ram make Grendel angry..why is he so angry period?
- Contemplate Grendel as other characters from lit. Does he remind you of anyone? For me, it’s Holden from Catcher in rye, The narrator from notes from underground; what is genesis of frustration in all these characters?
- What does Grendel think of the humans behavior as they’re observing him in the tree
- Pg. 13– “I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual brute enmity in which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears” discuss
- Page 16 is crucial… “suddenly I knew I was dealing with the most dangerous creatures I had ever met— pattern makers”
- Middle of 17 also.. “all that I had come to understand— the meaningless object ness of the world, the universal brutality
- Why, at the bottom of 18, does he state aloud what perceptions he is experiencing?
- What is meant by, “ I observe myself experiencing what I observe”?
Understanding the Origins of the French Revolution
Examine the 3 paintings below and download the attached learning helper to facilitate your comprehension of some underlying causes of the French Revolution.
Learning Helper to use for analysis of primary sources above: Understanding the French Revolution
World History Sem 1 Exam Review Sheet!!
History 9 First semester UPdated Exam Review Here: History 9 First semester exam reveiew 2
Sleepwalking towards Armageddon: An examination of tolerance, religious knowledge systems and a way forward
Read the short essay penned by Author Sam Harris titled, “Sleep Walking Toward Armageddon.”
When finished, reflect on the following questions:
- Harris writes, “Which will come first, flying cars and vacations to Mars, or a simple acknowledgment that beliefs guide behavior and that certain religious ideas—jihad, martyrdom, blasphemy, apostasy—reliably lead to oppression and murder?” What are your thoughts on this statement? There is no doubt beliefs guide behavior, but do the beliefs stated lead to the behavior cited?
- To what extent should beliefs that lead to bad behavior be tolerated?
- What are the individual and societal benefits of religious knowledge systems? If they were to be eliminated, what would take their place and fulfill the benefits you stated?
- Harris puts forth the thesis that acknowledging and critiquing of the “dangerous beliefs” which he states are inherent in Islam would be a start to solving the problems that he believes stem from islam. Do you agree? How would it and how wouldn’t it?
- What is the way forward? Education? Censorship?
