Language+Essays

= Essay Option A = = = You may tackle any of the titles below in the form of a 1200-1600 word essay. This will account for 40% of your first semester grade. ** Choosing this option means your Perception assessment must be a presentation. **

= = = Presentation Option B = This summative assessment task for ToK will account for 30% of your first semester grade. Although you will be working in groups of 2 or 3 to prepare and deliver the presentations, grading may also be individualized based on contributions to the presentation. Presentations should last approximately 15 minutes (no longer). You are encouraged to use any of the material we have looked at in ToK so far; however, top grades will require original material and creative thought. ** Choosing this option means your Perception assessment must be a Essay. **

= __Choice of Titles__ =

===1. Research the Sapir Whorf hypothesis. Ultimately, is language a fundamental facilitator of thought or does it inevitably limit our understanding and knowledge? === ===2. How closely is thought linked to language? With that in mind, consider being raised in a multilingual environment. How would this environment affect thought, understanding and meaning? === ===3. Using a newspaper article of your choice, explain how language is chosen, crafted and used in the article to manipulate the reader’s understanding of the story. ===

4. To what extent do you agree with the statement: “One can never know what one cannot express.”
===5. Discuss the pros and cons of figurative language, idioms, and value-laden words in both acquisition of knowledge and communication of understanding. ===

6. Craft a question of your own (submit to instructor for approval).
= Essay Option A = = = = Presentation Option B =