1. TOK Prescribed Title # 9
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

2. Identify Key Words and Phrases
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

3. Identify Key Words and Phrases
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

4. Contestable Concepts
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

5. Contestable Concepts
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

6. Contestable Concepts
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
Just because the title is personalized doesn’t mean
that you can be sloppy with these definitions

7. Contestable Concepts
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

8. Contestable Concepts
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
Be sure to define for yourself, subject areas. Look at
the IB descriptions.

9. Contestable Concepts
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

10. Contestable Concepts
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
This term can also be tricky

11. Contestable Concepts
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
This term can also be tricky
contributed to what extent?

12. Contestable Concepts
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
This term can also be tricky
contributed in what manner?
Perhaps begin by thinking about WOKs

13. Assumptions
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

14. Assumptions
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

15. Assumptions
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
•Places title firmly in the realm of personal
experience.
•Be careful as you must comment on your learning
experience as an IB student in particular

16. Assumptions
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

17. Assumptions
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
•You are an IB student, so Literature is your group 1
class, Science is your group 4 class and Individuals
and Societies must be your group 3
•Since you are relating all of this to your group three,
“science” cannot be the human sciences. Or can it?

18. Assumptions
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
Does the title assume a synthesis of literature and science?
Can they be compared? Contrasted? Synthesized?

19. Assumptions
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

20. Assumptions
As an IB student, how has Your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies.

21. The Claim to be Examined
As an IB student, how has Your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies.

22. Ambiguous Words
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

23. Ambiguous Words
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

24. Ambiguous Words
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

25. Ambiguous Words
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
•does not give a sense of extent
•does not give a sense of in what manner

26. Ambiguous Words
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

27. Ambiguous Words
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
•Understanding is complex
•very different from knowledge
•can be seen as levels or degrees

28. Ambiguous Words
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
Believe it or not, what you know is less debatable than what you understand

29. Action Terms
As an IB student, how has your learning of
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?

30. Action Terms
As an IB student, how has your learning of .....
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
.....

31. Action Terms
As an IB student, how has your learning of .....
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
.....
• you are being asked to Explain: Give a detailed account including
reasons or causes.
•one could also Compare and contrast the AOK...as you have group 1
and 4 to deal with.

32. Action Terms
As an IB student, how has your learning of .....
literature and science contributed to your
understanding of individuals and societies?
.....
• you are being asked to Explain: Give a detailed account including
reasons or causes.
•one could also Compare and contrast the AOK...as you have group 1
and 4 to deal with.
•any other command terms that you might commandeer here?

33. As with all the titles, whatever you argue, there
need to be counter-arguments examined and
evaluated.

34. As with all the titles, whatever you argue, there
need to be counter-arguments examined and
evaluated.
These claims and counter claims will come out
of the knowledge issues that arise in your
essay.

35. Possible Knowledge Issues
1. Can emotion help us learn more about individuals and society than reason.
2. Can literature contribute more about our knowledge of individuals and society than Science?
3. Can scientific knowledge add to our creative interpretation of knowledge about individuals and society?
4. How do we know if knowledge from literature and science provides a balanced view of individuals and society?
5. Can a knower gain an understanding of individuals and society by only studying literature and science?
6. To what extent does the logic of science keeps the creative enterprise of literature grounded in reality.