The Socratic Experience: August 22, 2018

Focus: What does a real Socratic seminar look like? How do we prepare for it?

1. Warming up with Ms. Leclaire's favorite trick and your first whiteboard challenge: Close reading the title

2. Offering you an overview of Socratic seminars and an explanation of Socratic grades; creating your first Socratic tickets and playing your first round of Socratic ticket musical chairs

3. Trying out your first (mini) Socratic seminar on "Werewolves in Their Youth"

4. Debriefing as a class and reflecting on Socratic individually

• What did we do well?
• What do we need to work on?  How?
• How would you grade your first time participating in an A.P. Lit Socratic?

HW:
1. For Thursday: 

Bring paper and a pen or pencil for your first timed writing (on "Werewolves"). Bring your copy of "Werewolves" to class as well.

If you have not yet done so, please click HERE to join our Remind account.

2. For Friday: 

• Make sure you have completed the survey I e-mailed you last Thursday (and encourage your parents/guardians to complete theirs, too). Sign up for Remind texts by clicking  here.

• Bring your laptop to class. We will be exploring college essay prompts and setting up your big question blogs.

3. Peering into next week: Reread the first half of Oedipus Rex for Monday and the second half for Wednesday; bring Oedipus and How To Read Literature...to class each day next week.