Writing: How And Why Instructional Manual to Accompany Suki

by Matthew Lipman

The aim of this program is to engage students in philosophical inquiry into aesthetics and related philosophical issues. The instructional manual includes short, accessible explanations of the philosophical concepts found in SUKI, the novel, as well as hundreds of exercises and discussion plans to prompt and assist the student's inquiry. As poetry is the primary aesthetic genre taken up in the novel, the explanations and activities in this manual offer numerous additional poems as objects of aesthetic inquiry. The manual also includes numerous activities that invite students to transform their thinking and dialogue into essays, poems and short stories, so that their philosophical inquiry and their creative production may inform one another.

Grade Range: 8-11 Target Grades: 9-10

384 pages, Ring-bound

Published January 1, 1980