Science and Religion

In honor of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded this week, we will read a piece written by a past Nobel Peace Prize winner--Jimmy Carter--on a topic timely for discussion this unit.

For a final word discussion next Tuesday, October 16, students will read a chapter from Jimmy Carter's book Our Endangered Values entitled "No Conflict Between Science and Religion."

Students will annotate the chapter as homework prior to the final word discussion. If you had trouble talking for your entire minute or two minute time frame during the last final word discussion, you may wish to annotate even more this time.

Here are some possible tasks that you might decide to do in the margins of the text while annotating the Carter chapter to ensure that you can speak intelligently for your given time.

1. TPCASTT Carter's poem in the chapter
2. clarify Carter's points
3. State why you agree with certain points that Carter raises
4. State why you disagree with certain points that Carter raises
5. Connect the selection back to Huxley and Brave New World
6. Connect the selection forward to the religion that you are researching