Jim Burke offers an idea for online Socratic Seminar after reading Of Mice and Men. This one-page PDF is a hand-out for students, explaining how they will use a blog to extend in-class discussions.
- Lisa
Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Middle and High School by Matt Copeland - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists - http://www.goodreads.com/book...
This book is a manual for setting up, managing, assessing, and refining Socratic Circles in your classroom. It's geared to English Language Arts, offering several text suggestions to use for discussions. I particularly like the list of companion texts for classic fiction titles, like Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby.
- Lisa
Teacher uses three NYTimes columnist for "Rhetorical Friday" to read and analyze column to analyze devices author uses and their effect and then to debate the issue.
- Lisa
Companion text for Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew--a great pairing of texts (a 17th century poem) and a 21st c. article. These two texts would make for a great discussion.
- Lisa