ToK Exhibition Objects

Which of these is SPECIFIC?

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• Buddhism

• Meditation

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Which of these are specific? (You can pick more than one.)

• The Black Lives Matter Movement

• My Black Lives Matter t-shirt

• Black Lives Matter

• A tweet by BLM co-founder Alicia Garza

Which of these are specific? (You can pick more than one.)

• A page of sheet music for the song "Blackbird"

• The song "Blackbird" by the Beatles

• Music

• A video of a woman singing "Blackbird" in Mi'kmaq (an indigenous language

Your object can't be symbolic, or meant to stand for a larger idea.

Which one of these is NOT symbolic?

• A picture of the Apple logo

• A picture of binary code (e.g. 01101010010101110)

• A picture of the Chromebook checked out to you for distance learning

• A picture of a computer

Which of these are symbolic objects? (You can check more than one.)

• A wedding ring

• The American flag

• A stop sign

• A heart

If you DID want to use a wedding ring, what are some good ways to do so?

• A picture of Megan Markle's ring

• A screenshot of an advertisement for wedding rings

• My grandmother's wedding ring

• The prettiest ring I can find on Google Image search

Which answer is SPECIFIC rather than SYMBOLIC?

• A globe

• A picture of a globe

• The globe in Ms. Bell's classroom

• A stylized drawing of a globe

IB encourages a strong personal connection to the object.

With that in mind, which two Maneki-Neko are the best choices for an exhibition?

• The one you made for ceramics class last year

• The one you saw a tattoo of last weekend.

• The one in the cartoon "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"

• The one on the counter at your parents' restaurant

Which items would be good exhibition objects?

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If we are going for SPECIFIC, CONTEXTUALIZED in TIME and SPACE, and PERSONALLY RELEVANT, which option is BEST?

• The rose bush in my front yard.

• A bouquet of roses

• A "Lady Banks" rose in Capitol Park

• The rose bush my grandmother instructed me to buy for my mother before she died.