Assignment: As Confucius said “True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know” and Socrates said “Wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.” This assignment is asking for the story of your personal search for information, as well as what you are learning about the topic in terms of what do you know vs what don’t you know.
- What do you know?
- Explain what you already know about your essential question. Explain why the topic is important to you, and what is motivating your inquiry.
- Place-based writing
- Creative process after being in quarantine and how nature affects that
- Important: during deep covid times I lost my creativity
- Also, place-based writing is a really interesting way to expand your mind to talk about events and emotions through imagery
- What understandings and experiences are you bringing with you as you start this research process?
- Chewonki
- Place based writing practice
- A slight understanding of how nature moves and works with itself (also fun species names)
- How have any outside sources informed your understanding of your essential question?
- TTW, thoreau, Edward abbey, Brading sweet grass
- What don’t you know?
- Why is it important for you to find out more about this question. Tell what you want to know about your essential question?
- What emotions and mental health experiences are exposed/ healed/ understood through this process of writing and being outside. Forcing my brain to learn how to be creative again but in a more inviting and open environment.
- What are the areas of inquiry that you think need to be explored?
- What are the other questions that are lurking just beneath the surface of your guiding essential question?