“Create a do-now question/activity that shows two pictures side by side of an apple, one fresh and new and one decayed and rotting. Use this line of questioning as a guide: If you leave an apple on the ground, we know it will eventually begin to rot away. Left on the ground for long enough, eventually that apple will decay to the point that it is unrecognizable as an apple, and we would simply consider it dirt. When does the apple stop becoming an apple and instead becomes dirt? This question points to the idea that there is some kind of “apple-ness” inherent in the apple. Is it possible for us to “know” what apple-ness is? How much of what it means to be an apple is connected to its qualities (i.e. “red-ness,” “roundness,” “sweetness,” etc.) We could ask the same question of the qualities themselves. When does a shade of red lose it’s “red-ness” and become orange? To say that we “know” what an apple is, is in a way to know it’s being.”