Do Now

•Grab a spring board book and take it back to your desk.

•Open up your notebook to page 30B and title it Socratic Seminar Prep.

•Grab both articles from the counter.

Learning Targets/Objectives

•IWBAT evaluate specific rules and laws in a utopian/dystopian society and compare them to present society.•IWBAT plan my contributions to a class discussion.

Before Reading

•Rip out page 115 in your springboard book.•Have you ever been told not to read a book? What was the reason given to you?•Why would someone want to ban a book?

Articles-Partner or Individual work•For each of the articles:•Read it fully.•Determine the central idea and write it at the top.•Annotate the text in a 2nd read, finding evidence for the central idea you found.•Create a level 1, 2 and a level 3 question for EACH article.

Do Now:

•Take out your vocabulary packets•Take out your Level 1,2 and 3 questions from yesterday •Take out your journals •Label the next available notes page “Socratic Seminar and Setting”

Setting- Moving beyond elementary•Setting is not simply when and where a story takes place…

• It is also the SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES that are created in the world the characters live in.

• It affects how they act and tells us the significance of their actions.

Examples • The Hunger Games takes place

in what is now the United States. District 12 is near the Appalachian Mountains and the Capital is near the Rockies. However, the social and societal circumstances is what defines character action and the conflict.

• Why is Guy taking the book from the burning house significant? What social rules is he breaking?

Fahrenheit 451’s Setting

•How are books viewed by the society in Fahrenheit 451? Who has these views?

•Why do you think the society has these views about books? Where do you think they come from?

State the rule or law the society has

Analyze: What is the underlying value this rule stems from?

Evaluate: State why you disagree with the rule or law and create a question

Everyone needs to wear a handicap if they are “better” than some one at something.

Everyone should be equal. Evaluation: This law is excessive and over-reaching. It is impossible for people to be equal in everyway. You deprive people of what makes them special and you decrease their quality of life.Level 3 question: At what point is equality not possible?

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What are some things you know to be true about a Socratic Seminar?

•Participants in a Socratic Seminar respond to one another with:• Respect by carefully listening instead of interrupting. • Students are encouraged to "paraphrase" essential elements of another's ideas before responding, either in support of or in disagreement. •Members of the dialogue look each other in the "eyes" and use each other names.

• There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. - Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC)

Norms for Socratic Seminar

1. Refer to the text when needed during the discussion. A seminar is not a test of memory. You are not "learning a subject;” your goal is to understand the ideas, issues, and values reflected in the text.

2. You will be given two poker chips. These are your speaking chips. You are responsible for using both chips during our discussion. This ensures that everyone is getting a chance to be heard during the seminar.

3. Do not stay confused; ask for clarification.

4. Stick to the point currently under discussion; make notes about ideas you want to come back to.

5. Don't raise hands; take turns speaking.

6. Listen carefully and respectfully.

7. Speak up so that everyone can hear you.

8. Talk to each other, not just to the leader or teacher.

9. Discuss ideas rather than each other's opinions.

10.You are responsible for the seminar, even if you don't know it or admit it.

Norms for Socratic Seminar

What should you do to prepare? • Read to at least page 65!• Complete charts in your Journals• List all level 2 and 3 questions you have created on

one page in your journal (be organized!)• Come ready to participate positively in the discussion

Starting Questions• Is it ever moral to censor or ban a book? •Are we more free than the citizens in the books?•What power do books possess? What power do they possess if they are banned?