Please read and annotate before the Socratic Seminar:

Audre Lorde’s Transformation of Silence into Language and Action

Lester Olson’s On the Margins of Rhetoric p. 49-57 ONLY

Amy Tan’s The Mother Tongue

Noam Chomsky On Language and Culture

Audre Lorde’s poem, Coal

Petter Garard’s TED Talk From the Power of Language to the Language of Power

 

In order to understand Socratic Seminar, review this information and these materials:

THE SEMINAR

The Socratic seminar is a formal discussion, based on a text, in which the leader asks open-ended questions. Within the context of the discussion, students listen closely to the comments of others, thinking critically for themselves, and articulate their own thoughts and their responses to the thoughts of others.

Please read this primer on Socratic Seminar.

EXAMPLES AT ALL LEVELS

Frankenstein

Middle Level

Catcher in the Rye

Art

TEACHING PEDAGOGY

TED: How Socrates Can Stimulate Brain Activity

Give your perspective on Socratic Method and the idea of a flipped classroom in this form.

THE POWERPOINT

Here is the PowerPoint presentation on Socratic Seminar from today’s class.