10-2-08 Allegory of the Cave

Today we began our class with questions about D2L and then moved into a powerpoint about Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which described two prisoners who could only see the shadows of those who walked by. After one prisioner was released her came back to the cave to the other prisoners and tried to tell them everything he had seen in the world outside but they could not define his shadow or understand his words. We then took four mystery boxes and had to draw and describe what was in the boxes. After making our own conclusions we discussed upon a group analysis and presented it to the class.