1. Answer the question on the handout about Brooks’ poem “We Real Cool”
Bellringer: Dec. 3
Answer the question on the handout about Brooks’ poem “We Real Cool”
Agenda:
1.CSET refresher
2. Socratic Seminar for Seize the Day.
3. Essay assignment for Seize the Day – while some kids write, you can finish your quiz.

2. Socratic Seminar Steps
We move into two circles – an inner and an outer. Do not fight with me about your seat.
We get out our notes and our copies of the texts for both stories.
We receive the first question and then write our thoughts down for 5 minutes. You have to find specific quotes or examples from the text to support your thoughts.
Inner circle – discusses for 5 minutes while the outer circle doesn’t talk.
With your circle partner – coach for 2 minutes
Inner circle discusses for 3 more minutes
We switch seats.
New Inner circle discusses same question for 3 more minutes.
We address a NEW question and repeat the process.

3. Question 1
In the final scene – is Tommy Wilhelm drowning or is he being baptized? Support your response with examples from the text. Sample answer: He is ______. I know this because on page ____ it shows _____ which means ______.

4. Question 2 - Do you agree with Kazin’s opinion of Seize the Day?
It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us, step by step, the world we really live each day -- and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding [is] the deprivation of light. - ALFRED KAZIN, “In Search of Light” New York Times Book Review
- Do you agree with Kazin’s opinion of Seize the Day?

5. Essay Assignment! Rough draft is due Dec. 9 Final draft is due Dec. 15
You have already started this essay with the three responses we wrote about the text. Review what you said in those. Add to them based on the entire book. You MAY change your mind as you look to integrate the three different ideas.

6. Homework:
Essay for Seize the Day – rough draft is due Dec. 9 You will turn in the novels on Dec. 15, when the final draft of the essay is due. Nothing is due for next class. We will be reading “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilmore. You want to talk about crazy people? It’s in this upcoming short story.