October Sky Socratic Seminar 2 Question
Aakriti Neopaney
11-15-14
Period 8, Honors English 9
October Sky Socratic Seminar 2 Questions
1. Homer doesn’t support Sonny’s plan to become a rocket engineer, because he wants his son to follow his own footsteps. He wants Sonny to work in the mine like himself. Many older people such as parents, relatives, and teachers have a very hard time supporting teenagers’ career plans, because teenagers nowadays make career choices that are much different than those of teenagers in the 1900’s. Teenagers nowadays are lazy and choose to do the easiest job such as wanting to work in fast food restaurants and places such as bars. Adults do not support these teenagers, because they want the best for teenagers, for they are what our future consists of.
2. Towns nowadays do not really put effort into supporting activities created by teenagers. The difference of society in the past and now has really changed. Towns don’t provide support and encouragement to teenagers, because they don’t want anyone to be better them themselves. They want you to do well, but they don’t want you to do better than them.
3. The folks in coal wood not giving everything to the rocket boys actually help the boys in the long run, because it teaches them that they must work for something they want. Parents and Schools nowadays just try to find the fastest and easiest way to help kids such as giving them a check for a field trip instead of making them work for the money by fundraising. Yes, today’s kids are missing out by not working for everything they get, because they should learn to work for things they want instead of just giving them everything they want, because later on in the real world they won’t have anyone to rely on.
4. I think that the policy of a widow and her family moving out of their home within weeks of her husband’s death in the mine is unreasonable and ridiculous. I think these women and children would go to another town and the women would work in order to raise their children. This
11-15-14
Period 8, Honors English 9
October Sky Socratic Seminar 2 Questions
1. Homer doesn’t support Sonny’s plan to become a rocket engineer, because he wants his son to follow his own footsteps. He wants Sonny to work in the mine like himself. Many older people such as parents, relatives, and teachers have a very hard time supporting teenagers’ career plans, because teenagers nowadays make career choices that are much different than those of teenagers in the 1900’s. Teenagers nowadays are lazy and choose to do the easiest job such as wanting to work in fast food restaurants and places such as bars. Adults do not support these teenagers, because they want the best for teenagers, for they are what our future consists of.
2. Towns nowadays do not really put effort into supporting activities created by teenagers. The difference of society in the past and now has really changed. Towns don’t provide support and encouragement to teenagers, because they don’t want anyone to be better them themselves. They want you to do well, but they don’t want you to do better than them.
3. The folks in coal wood not giving everything to the rocket boys actually help the boys in the long run, because it teaches them that they must work for something they want. Parents and Schools nowadays just try to find the fastest and easiest way to help kids such as giving them a check for a field trip instead of making them work for the money by fundraising. Yes, today’s kids are missing out by not working for everything they get, because they should learn to work for things they want instead of just giving them everything they want, because later on in the real world they won’t have anyone to rely on.
4. I think that the policy of a widow and her family moving out of their home within weeks of her husband’s death in the mine is unreasonable and ridiculous. I think these women and children would go to another town and the women would work in order to raise their children. This