I feel that the seminar went very well because we had some very good conversations with different perspectives about the story. Everybody got a chance t say what they want to say and all of the topics were covered in detail.
My experience as the moderator of the seminar was very fun because i felt like i had the power to control the seminar. I enjoyed being able to talk to everybody about the topics and it was really cool to see everyone's perspectives on the questions.
My opinion did not change during the session but the people that had the same opinions as me helped further stregthen my opinion by them provifng more reason than i thought of about why my resoning was mostly …show more content…
There was not any bad parts of the semiar because everyone got to shre their ideas in the way they wanted to be portrailed
I really enjoyed the socratic seminar because i have neer done anything like that in any of my classes before so it was very intresting to hear everoynes opinion and be able to challage them on their ideas.
I liked when i said that “ death gives you a reason to live life to the fullest” because i fell like that supported my opinion in the argument of death does give meaning to life.
I remeber when someone said that the reason that the woeman was introduced to enkidu was the allow enkidu to share complex thoughts with someoe who thinks like him. I belive that transfer of ideas between them made enkidu alot more civilzed and loose his animal insticts.
The most intresting question in my opinion was “is Gilgamesh a hero? I belived he was a hero but the mejority of the class did not belive in that so i got to hear evroynes opinions and it made me belive tht gilgamesh has some non-hero like qualites that made him sound lesser than what i made him sound in my pre-seminar …show more content…
Overall i really enjoyed the seminar and hope to particpate and or moderate some more seminars in the future
1. How did you feel about the seminar?
2. Reflect on your own experience.
3. If you changed your opinion during the discussion, what changed it?
4. Using your own knowledge on this topic or issue, create a question to start a seminar.
5. What was the best part of the seminar? The worst part?
6. What was your overall opinion of the Socratic Seminar?
7. What is one thing you liked that you said?
8. What is one point someone else said that you agree with?
9. What was the most interesting question?
10. What was the most interesting idea to come from a participant?
11. What was the best thing that you observed?
12. What was the most troubling thing that you observed?
13. What do you think should be done differently in the next seminar?
14. As a Socratic Seminar participant, what area of the process will you work on for next time?
15. What new questions arose during the seminar and