Socratic Seminar Reflection

Socratic Seminar is a group discussion over a certain text where a leader asks a question about the text. This quarter I have learned how to lead and participate in Socratic Seminar and have a group discussion. This will help me later in life in college and when I get a job because it will help me contribute to a group discussion and be part of a team.

In Socratic Seminar, I led the class first time doing Socratic Seminar it showed me how to lead a group and take control. While in S. Seminar It showed there's more to a story and just reading the story once isn’t understanding it you need to read it more like three times to really get the full meaning of the story or it’s just a waste of time to read the story and you get no actual meaning out of it. It most of all showed me I have good ideas and I need to share them with the group because they might be help the group because there might be a clue I have realized that will help answer a question but I don’t say anything. While doing S. Seminar. I also realized if you keep repeating the same idea over and over you can never get anywhere. And the biggest thing I found was you need to stay on topic in S.
I have also learned to share my ideas with the class because they could be very useful in the discussion and help answer the question. To help this I’m going to talk more with my group about the discussion. Also when I read a short story from now on I will make sure to go back read it more than once and highlight the words I don’t know because they might help my understanding of the story. Now whenever I’m answering questions I’m going to make sure to thoroughly read them through to make sure I know what it's asking and this could help me on a test to get a better