Learning Theater

Introduction

• meeting the people
• who are we working with? (Anna Schneiderman (?), Gerald Gray, Courtney Roby, Carrie Paff, Adam Kokesh)
• who is returning? (Antonia, Elibet)
• new way to do philosophy and theater (new, but also old)

• critical thinking (on big issues like justice, self-restraint and courage, truth and knowledge)
• communicating confidently and persuasively
• collaborative, creative productions that make our learning relevant

• final performances

Room/space (desks, chairs, white boards, walls)

Team Building

Survey-First Thoughts

• Distribute entrance surveys

Tour: meet Adelaide, Laurie; 4th floor; Learning Theater

Final Performance:

• Scenes from Antigone/Birds
• Scenes of Reflection

Administrative Stuff:

• Punctuality
• Publicity

Lunch

Get to know your instructors

Rooms 120 Stoics

Wiki-Time

• Introduction
• Ease of page creation
• Visibility
• Adding content
• Posting comments
• Nothing is ever lost!

Rooms 127 Cynics Wiki-assignment (1hour information gathering for Birds)

• characters
• circumstances: Athens, Greek theater, utopia
• ideas: justice, self-control, courage, truth, myth, comedy, philosophy

Break (10 minutes)

Learning Theater

Socrates Workshop I: "It is unjust to..."

(Philosophical Themes: Justice, Self-restraint and Courage, Truth and Knowledge)

Homework:

Informed Consent (!)

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