- Possible Knowledge Questions
- Riot and Protest
- Shakespeare
- Poetry
- How can literature be seen as entertainment?
Possible Knowledge Questions
To what extent does all knowledge depend on language?
How do we need language in order to think?
How does language shape our thoughts?
Does religious experience come from a place beyond language?
How can we know when language is offensive?
To what extent can we really know a culture through its languages?
Riot and Protest
- What do protest and riot mean?
- What is the difference?
The image was taken from a TOK page on Facebook. Is imagery a language? If so, how has the producer of this image conveyed their message through the colours and objects? Is it an objective image?
On the same FB post was a discussion of languages and a protest/riot that took place in January 2021.
Is this a protest or a riot? Notice how the two videos use different language.
a. What knowledge can make a person think it is a protest?
b. What knowledge can make a person think it is a riot?
Is this a riot or a protest?
Shakespeare
In Utramque Partem: Arguing Both Sides of the Question in Othello
a. Where does one acquire knowledge of language?
b. How do you know this knowledge is accurate?
There are only 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don’t.
“There are two groups of people: those who split everyone into two kinds of people, and those who don’t. I’m in the second group.”
4. Poetry
Four-year-old lands poetry deal
‘In these times, we must liberate expression’
Teaching Poetry of the Immigrant Experience
- How can you rely on a poet to explain science?
How Poetry Can Help Communicate Science
5. How can literature be seen as entertainment?