the shoes of a jew who was barely struggling to live and their life. Although i wasn’t able to express some of my ideas i was very satisfied when i was able to learn from ideas from others had to share. Overall I thought I had contributed to the Socratic Seminar‚ I was capable of asking meaningful questions and add interesting ideas to the conversation. I thought I provided good information my group like the many examples i had pulled from The Book
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Mariah Gleason English III-1 16 September 2012 The Crucible Socratic Seminar Questions 1. Mary enters Act II feeling weak‚ sad and guilty. This is first represented when she gives Elizabeth the poppet that she had hand-sewed. As the play advances‚ Mary breaks down in sobs while telling the Proctors about the proceedings she witnessed that day. Later‚ due to her strong sense of shame‚ Mary agrees to testify against Abigail in the high court with John. Seeing so many falsely accused people caused
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where is all this unnecessary stress and pain I feel coming from? Well‚ I’m sitting in the middle of a graded socratic seminar. To start‚ graded socratic seminars put a lot of pressure on a person‚ especially someone who is shy. For one who doesn’t talk particularly a lot it causes anxiety. In the article Socratic seminars silence students‚ by Kaitie Puryear‚ she writes‚ “Grading Socratic Seminars is ridiculous. It puts students under an ungodly amount of pressure.” And I for one agree with her because
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The socratic seminar during class changed my thoughts vastly as it progressed. The multiple bright ideas spread throughout the entirety of the seminar created many opportunities to reflect upon the ideas I had going into the seminar. Many of the ideas revolved around the themes of destiny and the idea of Maktub. Overall‚ the seminar certainly contained a lot of material to build off of. A theme that was discussed repeatedly through the seminar was destiny. Nikol explained that destiny drove Santiago
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Frankenstein and Pride & Prejudice Socratic Seminar Reflection This Socratic Seminar made me agree much more with Socrates’ beliefs: that extended discussion and continual questioning facilitate the most meaningful learning experiences. It helped me understand the novel much more than I had before because I got to hear about the book from the perspective of others and how they interpreted the story and discussed what they thought were the positive and negative aspects of Frankenstein. I
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1. Frankenstein has many elements of a horror story. What strategies and devices does Shelley use to make the story scary? How does Shelley go beyond the usual horror story elements to focus on characters and the differences between their behaviors‚ beliefs and values? Some strategies Shelley uses to make this story is the theme of death and anticipation. She uses death as a horror theme by making it very persistent and making the reader feels the pain and struggle of Victor as he watches his family
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Fahrenheit 451 Socratic Seminar Keeping people out of “the cave” can be a burdensome task that requires a plentiful amount of strategy and intelligence. “The cave” may be defined as a somber place where the ignorance of those who inhabit it manifests and thrives‚ and this cave is an internal part of one’s mind‚ body‚ and soul. In order to keep people out of the cave‚ one must make certain that the confined are enlightened‚ the false interpretations of the real world are analyzed‚ the chains
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Christine Gao #6 K. Kassakatis C&C Honors World Literature 17 September 2015 Siddhartha Socratic Seminar Questions 1. While Siddhartha’s journey is uniquely his own‚ it is also everyone’s journey. What connections to Siddhartha’s journey toward shaping and understanding his identity can you see within your own? Siddhartha’s life journey is representative of the worldly human desire to find meaning and success within oneself. Everyone’s journey is basically the same because they all require a certain
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whenever I have had to participate in a Socratic seminar with my peers of a English class but‚ I have to say the most impactful Socratic seminar I ever participated in was my first. A Socratic seminar simply put is a form of a graded discussion in which all participants are seated in a circle and discuss different topics. Seeing as to how it was in all of my English classes the topics were usually based around the book that we were reading at that time. My first Socratic seminar was in my seventh grade WAVE
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Socratic Seminar Reflection Us humans use a lot of fuels during the day‚ food fuels and mechanical fuels. Each gives us energy to power through the day‚ mechanical fuels to cars and food fuels to our bodies. When being compared they have some similarities and differences. Obviously the main and most distinguishable difference is the fact mechanical fuels are used for cars and food fuels are eaten by us to give us energy. So they seem completely different right? But exactly how different? Our human
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