Today I spent most of the day planning out critical/ethical thinking classes. I had to write up a detailed lesson plan for the new week’s topic, which is “Names of Things”. And when I started that I realised I had no topics lined up in advance for the next weeks. I usually have 4 weeks of topics outlined ahead of time so I can have them posted on Outschool to give parents an advance look at the next few weeks. But I’d run them down to zero, so I had to spend time coming up with new lesson ideas and listing some questions, which will later be expanded into full lesson plans at the appropriate week.
I came up with ideas for topics on:
- Mistakes — fairly straightforward
- The End of Poverty — or post-scarcity economy; what would a world be like where everything was so cheap to make that there was no point charging money for it?
- Stranded on a Desert Island — how to survive alone, what would you do, how to organise a stranded group, etc.
I think they should all be interesting. I didn’t have much time for anything else. Except I took Scully for a walk at lunch time, and went to the cafe that I tried for the first time recently. hey had a chipotle chicken burrito on the specials menu so I tried that. It was good, but I should have considered that it might have avocado in it – not my favourite ingredient.