Test Details

Vocab Quiz #3

2014-2015

Principles of English 1, fall 2014

Date

Sept. 5, 2014

Additional Info
After the vocab quiz, we will watch and discuss (better than last week) another episode of The Idea Channel. To get your brain started with thinking, here are a few anticipatory questions:

  • What does it mean to "know" something?
  • What is "knowledge"?
  • What is the difference between "knowing" something and Knowing something?
  • What is the relationship between intelligence and knowledge?
  • Does something have to be stored in your brain to be considered "having" knowledge?

Keep the following idea in mind as you watch and use it to frame your responses after the episode: it isn't what we know that matters, but we can DO with what we know.

Be prepared to respond thoughtfully (in writing) to the following questions after the episode. After you've written your responses, we will discuss them as a class.


  1. Do you agree or disagree that we are "past the age of memory"? Support your answer with examples from your own life.
  2. John Locke's theory of knowledge, put simply, is that knowledge is how all our ideas relate to all our other ideas; it is the relationship or connection between ideas. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
  3. "What if the cost of machines that think is people who don't?" Think about this. What does it mean? Do you think we are in danger of living in a world like this? Are you willing to pay this price for technology and convenience?
  4. As a whole, do you agree or disagree with the episode's assertion that "Google is knowledge"? Explain and defend your answer.