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__Knowledge Question Assignment __ **Instructions:** Using one of the knowledge questions you extracted from the Drawbridge activity, create an extended response of approximately 500 words that achieves the below objectives. Remember that good knowledge questions are open-ended, explicitly about knowledge, couched in TOK terms and derived from a real life epistemological dilemma. Your response should be typed and include responses to the below questions: //-What// was the real life stimulus for your knowledge question?

- Why do you think this question fits the definition of a good Knowledge Question?

-What areas of knowledge most clearly demonstrate the openness of this knowledge question? (Need to provide 2-3 explicit examples)

-How do you, as a knower, view this knowledge question?

Your responses will be due when you come to class next lesson and you will be assessed using the Global Impression Rubric for Writing in TOK

Real Life Situation Examples to Peruse and Mine for Knowledge Questions

1. [|Hope Solo and Domestic Violence]

2. [|Discrimination Against Men]

3. [|On Being Wrong-Ted Talk]

4. [|Government Stealing the Identity of Criminals]

5. [|Can Wanting to Believe Make Us Believers]

6. [|Increase in Size of Chickens]

7. [|Jenifer Lawrence Responds to Nude Photo Scandal]

8. [|More Woman Killed by Their Partners then from Terror Attacks Since 9/11]

9. [|Is Sexting a Normal Part of Adolescent Development]

10. [|Artificial Thumb that Makes Using the Iphone 6 Easier]

11. [|Female Teacher Who Attempted to Have Sex with Her 10 Year old Student Goes Free]