Month: June 2020

English Lit HL IO Reflection

Rachel Jung

Challenges

  • Time limit of 10 minutes
    • Had to take out some evidence and analysis
      • Shortened analysis of “scrawny, lank gray hair” from The RoTook out analysis of “… very few superior individuals, made of the stuff of martyrs and saints”
  • Development of global issue
    • Stuck in mentality that I had to focus on how environment affects moral values, but eventually realized that both texts emphasized more on how the transformation of moral values affect one’s environment (community)
    • Wanted to show change in thesis, so wanted exploration of the chosen global issue to develop more in analysis of the second text, The Road, but it seemed really similar to my exploration in If This is a Man
  • Organizing the ten bullet points

 

Good

  • Learning of the context and connecting it to the text and its global issue
  • Connecting two texts and respective authors’ perspectives on the global issue to modern-day situations/context
    • BLM protests, Coronavirus, etc

Beginning Notes

Script

Peer Feedback

Final Shortened Script

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TOK Reflection

Rachel Jung

I think what I’ve taken from TOK the most is questioning the knowledge I have, and the knowledge others have, and its basis for certainty, especially to what extent does faith play a role in our belief in our knowledge. How do we know to trust the sources our knowledge came from? How do we determine the credibility of our sources? Likewise, even if the source is credible, would it not just be faith if we never see the actual phenomenon with our own eyes? Must we use perception to confirm the authenticity of truth? But then, what of areas that cannot be seen?

I don’t think I have fully formed an answer to all of these questions. However, before TOK, I only thought that the credibility of our knowledge only mattered on the sources. I had never thought that faith would play a role in the creation of personal knowledge. TOK has made me really question how anyone can define knowledge solidly.

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