1. Challenging Students to Think for Themselves Introduction to Socratic Seminars

2. “Wisdom begins in wonder.”

3. “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”

4.  “The secret of managing a team is to keep the four guys who hate you away from the five guys who are still undecided.”

6. Socratic Seminars Help to Develop:  Reading skills  Writing skills  Listening skills  Speaking skills  Test-Taking skills  Critical Thinking  Initiative  Classroom Community  Originality  Self-Respect  Self-Confidence

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8. Socratic Seminars Transmission of Facts

9. Socratic Seminars  To enlarge understanding of issues, ideas, and values.

10. Dialogue: An exchange of ideas or opinions. Debate: To engage in argument by discussing opposing points.

12. Questioner: What does he mean by rational? Responder: I think he means logical. Questioner: How is logical different from rational? Responder: One way is by using steps. Questioner: Explain how using steps is rational. Responder: It is reasonable to use steps. Questioner: Can you give examples when to be reasonable uses steps? “Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”

13. Prep Work SeminarReflection The Process of Socratic Seminars

16. Prep Work 1.Read the text carefully, like you would when reading a love letter. 2.Highlight the phrase or sentence in the text which: is your favorite is most ambiguous

17. Salvador Late or Early – Opening Question  Which pair of words best captures the essence of the text?  Love : Fear  Respect : Pity  Courage : Despair

18. Salvador Late or Early - Reflection  What did you observe about: the other participants? the process? yourself? the leader?

19. Sandra Cisneros  Caramelo (2002)  Loose Woman: Poems (1994)  Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991)  My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987)  The House on Mango Street (1983)

20. How are revenge and maturity related?

21. Adulthood; full development. Maturity

22. About Revenge - Reflection  What did you observe about: the other participants? the process? yourself? the leader?