Quarter 1 Week 5 Oct 3-7

Monday:

· Collect PSU Millar Library permission slips

· Supplemental textbooks checked

· Small group discussion of Abelard and Aquinas readings

o Consider Purpose, argument and epistemology of their writing

o How does it relate to the time period?

· Slides and lecture on Scholasticism and the Importance of Abelard and Aquinas

· HW:

o –due Tuesday/Wednesday

§ Watch this brief interview with philosopher Bertrand Russell (link here)

§ Type a 150-250 word response to the following prompt:

· Would Russell agree or disagree with Aquinas’ approach to religious faith? Explain your reasoning and reference Aquinas’ Summa Theologica where appropriate.

o --due Thursday/Friday Oct 7

§ develop a historical question for your research topic. Type and turn in with any other questions you may have.

Tuesday/Wednesday:

· lecture, slides and discussion on Scholasticism:Abelard and Aquinas' significance

• discussion of HW responses
  

· in small groups, share, and refine research topic ideas... develop your historical question

· HW: --due Thursday/Friday

o Read primary source handout excerpts from Petrarch and Bruni

Thursday/Friday:

• Handout Research paper assignment packet and review due dates
• Introduction to the Renaissance and Humanism
• in-class reading of Pico della Mirandola
  
• HW: --due Thursday 10/13
• Read and prep for graded discussion of “Erasmus and the Humanists”