PHILOSOPHY POCKET ALPHABET Split into teams 4 or

PHILOSOPHY

POCKET ALPHABET • Split into teams (4 or 5 per team). In your groups you must pull out everything in your pockets. You then have to try and make the alphabet out of the items you have by using the first letter of each item e. g. Brush = B, wallet = W, penny = P etc.

A TITANIC ARGUMENT • 5 parts CAPTAIN, JENKINS, SMITH, JONES, WILLIAMS + CHORUS (rest of class, offstage for sound effects). CAPTAIN and JENKINS on stage to start.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST FAIR RULE?

WHO IS YOUR HERO?

WHAT DOES A HERO NEED?

A HERO IS: AN INDIVIDUAL WHO TAKES THE RIGHT PATH. HAS SUPERIOR ABILITY AND WHO PURSUES HIS GOALS TIRELESSLY IN THE FACE OF POWERFUL OPPOSITION Strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

YOU HAVE TO EXIST TO BE CONSIDERED A HERO Strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

A HERO HAS TO SAVE SOMEONE Strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

WE CAN’T ALL BE HEROES BECAUSE SOMEONE NEEDS TO SIT ON THE CURB AND CLAP AS THEY GO BY Strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

WHO IS THE MOST HEROIC? • Harry Potter • Emily Davison – Suffragette who campaigned for women’s rights • Nelson Mandela • Super Man • World War Two Veteran

RULES FOR DEBATE IN PHILOSOPHY • Only one person talks at any given time. • We LISTEN to each other. • When we look at a scenario we keep to the boundaries provided by the teacher. • If you would like to talk next RAISE YOUR HAND. We will now have: - A Scribe - Someone to keep a check on whether the question is being answered. - Someone to check that everyone is able to have a say.

WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE? ANY QUESTIONS?

JAN. 27, 1967: 3 ASTRONAUTS DIE IN CAPSULE FIRE

Astronaut Gus Grissom wrote a few weeks before his death, "There will be risks, as there are in any experimental programme, and sooner or later, we're going to run head-on into the law of averages and lose somebody. I hope this never happens, and. . . perhaps it never will, but if it does, I hope the American people won't think it's too high a price to pay for our space programme. "