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Our second unit will require us to think about personal integrity, principles, and values. We'll look at the essential question: **Is maintaining your integrity more important than survival?**
 * Unit two : Is Maintaining Personal Integrity More Important than Survival?**

We'll study //The Crucible// through this lens, and we'll explore many different answers to this question by looking at what different people have to say in response to the question.

At the culmination of the unit, you will answer the question yourself. What do you think?

Essay Assignment due Tuesday, November 13th

Essay Rubric

MLA Format Handout


 * Here is a list of the works we will read for this unit.**


 * Full-Length Text**
 * Arthur Miller, __The Crucible__ (1952) (Considering John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Hale especially)
 * Disciplinary Texts**
 * Costica Bradatan, “Philosophy as an Art of Dying” (2011) []
 * Class Google Doc analyzing article here
 * “The Challenge” (1955) []
 * “The Life and Death of Gandhi” (1998) []
 * “Gandhi Film Trailer” (1982 film) []
 * “Gandhi’s Non-Violence Speech” (1982 film) []
 * Transcript of Speech here [[file:Transcript of Gandhis Speech.docx]]
 * George Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi” (1949)[[file:Reflections on Gandhi_George Orwell.pdf]]
 * @http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/ghandi.html
 * Gwendolyn Brooks, “Kitchenette Building” (1963) []
 * Tamar Lewin, “When It’s One Absolute Right Against Another” (1988) []

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 * What is your personal philosophy?**

Have you ever been asked to define your personal philosophy before? It can be an illuminating exercise to state your beliefs and articulate why you feel this way. Our personal philosophies are shaped by many factors: life experiences, religious or political beliefs, moral values held, prior educational experiences, and many other things.

As a starting place, please take this online quiz that will give you a very preliminary sense of how you might define your personal philosophy. There are 36 questions total. Once you are finished (IMPORTANT!) **PLEASE copy and paste your results into a document so that you have them to share with me.**

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 * Link to personal philosophy quiz:**

Please don't forget to copy ALL of your results and save for later!

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