Tues. April 12 Have students count off ONE-TWO, ONE-TWO. TODAY… Warm Up: Review your journal prompts and journal entries (Ch. 17 – 26). Refamiliarize yourself with what you wrote in order to be prepared for today’s socratic seminar. For your warm up, create a CENTRAL or OVERARCHING QUESTION that relates to all the prompts and everything we’ve read . Then, write THREE MORE questions that require INFERENCE and/or ANALYSIS: ONE based on PLOT questions that you have, or think your classmates might have (chapters 17-26),   and TWO based on potential PSYCHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS (the question MUST require the responder to use textual evidence to back up response). Task Two: Socratic Seminar Have students count off ONE-TWO, ONE-TWO. Students who are ONEs will discuss; students who are TWOs will observe the discussion, performing the duties. TWOs are engaged in analysis of the discussion itself. . After about 15 minutes, students switch the roles of discusser and observer so that all students do both during the period. Learning Targets: I can prepare for my unit test next class by creating questions that require critical thinking about the text. I can participate in a Socratic seminar in order to expand my comprehension of the text.

Socratic Seminar Grading Scale 10 Student displayed all criteria to earn an 8 AND Student comments were insightful, showed inference, and used the text to support assertions AND Student responded directly to classmates and/or asked relevant questions of other participants 8 Student verbally participated multiple times in discussion with insightful comments that demonstrated reading comprehension AND Demonstrated attentiveness and respect for classmates AND Used nonverbal behaviors to show focus 7 Student did not meet the criteria to earn an 8 OR Student demonstrated behaviors mentioned in the 0 row that subtracted from their overall grade 6 Student did not contribute verbally BUT Proved attentiveness by looking at the speaker, following along in the text, and making the discussion the main focus 5-0 Student did not contribute verbally to the discussion AND Was obviously inattentive, displaying one of the following behaviors Chatting or disrupting others Putting head down/closing eyes Working on other homework Using cell phone/ipod Bulldozing/Dominating the conversation