Journey: Session 6, Week 1

Welcome to week 1 of session 6! We are currently entering the last session of the year, which is so exciting. On Tuesday,  we started the rise of Islam and the Middle Ages in civ. We learned about gunpowder, cannons, and guns. During the Civ circle, we answered very interesting questions about the invention of gunpowder, and we heard people's opinions on whether it should have been gatekept or not. We also introduced this session's genre! The genre for this session is writing your hero's speech, and we launched this genre by learning about what a hero is and making a list of examples of real-life heroes who contributed to society in a significant way. We also introduced the Socrates trial quest! For our first challenge, we looked at different debates so we could reflect on how they went, and to prepare for the upcoming challenges of drafting your argument for the final Socrates trial. 

On Wednesday we started off with genre after core skills. In Genre things are starting to get official. We chose our hero who we will write a speech for and we prepare to present in front of the studio your final hero and their call to action or a small explanation of what they advocated or protested for. After the studio approved everyone's hero and call to action, we moved on to Quest! For quest, we took notes on different types of arguments, and we identified a deductive argument from some sample arguments. We had another really interesting quest, where we practiced the art of getting accustomed to asking questions until you get answers. We did this by reading a dialogue with our quest partners, and in the dialogue, it shows how a character gets an answer to a question eventually by just asking questions.

On Thursday, we started the day with Civ right after core skills. This was a very interesting civ in my opinion because of the different opinions that were raised in the civ circle. The civ was about the rise of Islam, and we answered questions about how Islam contributed to the country at the time, and we also answered questions about how wealth affects religion. Moving on to the quest, we learned about fallacies and the different types of them when you are arguing. We also identify when we have used fallacies or experienced them in an argument or debate, and finally, we came up with examples of fallacies with our partners.

It is the last day of week 1! For genre, we learned about moving your audience to action with logos, ethos, and pathos. We took notes and then answered questions about which of the 3 we think is more powerful. Then we moved on to Quest. For Quest, we learned about presenting evidence. The way we practiced this is that we read a story and then came up with 150 words defending it in court, which was really interesting. For our second challenge of representing evidence, we split into groups and debated on whether Lionel Messi is better than Michael Jordan, and an additional person in the group chose who had the most convincing argument. And this concluded the first week of this session!