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🎯 1. The task

Last lesson ended with a question: how much of what you know rests on someone else's word? Next lesson you answer questions like that one in writing, using one object from your home.

Next lesson is a double, split over lunch. You write two short assessed pieces about the same object, one before lunch and one after.

Part 1: Your object. Before lunch, 300 to 400 words. Answer one of these:

• Can a representation that leaves things out still be true?
• How do we acquire knowledge?
• Why are the criteria for what counts as knowledge not obvious?

Part 2: Other knowers. After lunch, 250 to 350 words, about the same object. Answer one of these:

• How much of our knowledge depends on our interactions with other knowers?
• What shapes my perspective as a knower?

You have met three of these before, as the questions for the map lesson, your first TOK lesson and the cave lesson. Go back to those pages: what you wrote there is a start.

• Time: each part has 33 minutes of writing time, or until the end of the lesson if you are allowed extra time. That includes checking and submitting. At the start of each part you set up your Google Doc, then your time starts.
• When you finish: submit, close your TOK Doc and work quietly on something else on your laptop until the end of the lesson. Everyone stays in the room for the whole lesson.
• Where: each part is written in class in its own Google Doc, starting with a photograph you have taken of your object, and submitted through ManageBac when your time is up. Part 1 is submitted before lunch.
• Open book: you may use your notes, your Notion pages and today's plans.
• No AI: every word must be your own. Do not use an AI tool to write, rewrite or plan any part of either piece.

Today is for choosing your two questions and your object, and planning both pieces.

📦 2. Your questions and your object