OMAM Socratic Seminar Written Make-Up

If you missed the Socratic Seminar on Of Mice and Men, you must complete the following assignment and turn it in by Friday 4/20.

For each of the following questions, respond in 1-2 full and detailed paragraphs. Each response must include at least one quote directly from the text to support your response. Please include in-text citations (Steinbeck, 45).

You can access the online version of Of Mice and Men from the bottom of the Scanned Class Documents section of the blog: HERE

Reminders:
- The make-up must be typed and printed in order to be handed in.
- Consider including outside research in your responses.
- You must also turn in your completed Socratic Prep Packet. 

Socratic Questions:
1.) What is the significance of the story beginning and ending at the same place by the river?
2.) Expand on the significance of Carlson's gun being used to kill both Candy's dog and Lennie.
3.) What is the main lesson that is taught to the audience in Of Mice and Men?
4.) How did Lennie both positively and negatively affect other characters in the novel?
5.) Which character do you deem the most lonely of all, and why?
6.) Analyze the following lines from the poem 'To a Mouse' by Robert Burns and connect them to Of Mice and Men:

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,

An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,

For promis’d joy!

Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me!

The present only toucheth thee:

But Och! I backward cast my e’e,

On prospects drear!

An’ forward tho’ I canna see,

I guess an’ fear!

Socratic Seminar - Hero Music Analysis (Honors)

Analyze the following lyrics and relate them to The Odyssey and our Socratic Seminar Questions for Quarter 2.

Hero Songs

Links to listen:
Kryptonite by Three Doors Down
Superman (It's not Easy) by Five for Fighting

Link to how to analyze song lyrics: How to: Song Analysis

Socratic Seminar Make-up Requirements

If you are going to be absent on the day of a Socratic Seminar you will need to complete the following written assignment by 1/26 (Friday - Last day of Quarter).

Answer the Socratic Seminar questions (for your current quarter) and relate them all back to the readings we have done in that quarter. Each response to the questions needs to be a minimum of a paragraph long and include at least one direct quote from the required reading to support your answer to the questions.

Quarter 2:
Readings:
The Odyssey - (you can access the online version from 'Scanned Class Documents')
Research your own Everyday Hero article.
Song Analysis HONORS (post above)
Use real life examples to answer the questions as well.

Questions:
1.) What is a hero? What is a villain?
2.) How does the definition of a hero change? (Across time, culture, situation?) What (if anything) is unchanging about the definition?
3.) From where does courage come?
4.) How to choices shape our character.

Odyssey Socratic Seminar Essential Questions

Answer the following questions using direct quotes and situational examples from the text: The Odyssey. Think about our real world when answering these questions as well. Your answers should be at least a paragraph each including a minimum of one direct quote from the Odyssey each.

- What is a hero?  What is a villain?
- How does the definition of a hero change?  (Across time, culture, situation?)  What (if anything) is unchanging about the definition?
- From where does courage come?
- How do choices shape our character?

Romeo and Juliet Socratic Seminar Info (Quarter Four)

Essential Questions:
1.) What is love?
2.) Is violence ever justified?
3.) Do you believe in fate, or can people make their own destiny?
4.) Is a loving relationship worth more than family?

If you will be present for the Socratic Seminar, you need to prepare by:
- Bringing old notes and worksheets.
- Writing new notes that help you answer the Essential Questions.
- Printing part of the text and marking it up.
- Bringing your device.
- Being prepared to say quotes directly from the text.
- Speaking at least three times.

If you are absent on the day of the Socratic Seminar. You only have until (6/8) to turn in your written version. The written version must include:
- 1 to 2 paragraph response to each question.
- Direct quotes from the play that you use to support your answer to each question.

Short Stories Socratic Seminar Make-Up (Quarter One)

If you were absent on the day of our Socratic Seminar, you must complete the written version of the assignment. To do that you must answer the following three questions, and connect each question to at least three of the five stories that we read during our Short Stories Unit.

1.) What does the story tell about the storyteller (Author)? Do some outside research on the author.
2.) How do stories change/explain the world around us? Relate the stories to real life.
3.) Why do we still read this.

Answer each question by connecting it to at least three of the following stories.

All Summer in a Day
The Veldt (0 Block)
The Most Dangerous Game
Tell Tale Heart
Annabel Lee
Rumpelstiltskin
Little Red Riding Hood
One of These Days (Honors)
Valediction (Academic)

They are all linked for you to read HERE.

* Remember to use direct examples from the text to support your connections!

Prepare for Short Stories Socratic (Quarter One)

You will have to relate Most Dangerous Game, The Grimm Brothers, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe, and any other stories your class has read, to the following questions:

1.) What does the story tell about the storyteller (Author)? Do your research here.
2.) How are oral stories different than written ones?
3.) How do stories change/explain the world around us? Relate the stories to real life.
4.) Why do we still read this?

During the Socratic you will be talking with each other. Not to me.

Prepare by:

Bringing your notes.
Writing new notes.
Printing out the texts and marking them up.
Being prepared to say quotes directly from the texts.
Speaking at least three times.

Short Stories Socratic Seminar and Essential Questions (Quarter One)

Socratic Seminar Instructions and Information

Essential Questions for the first semester:

- What does the story tell about the storyteller (Author)?

- How are oral stories different from written stories?

- How do stories change/explain the world around us?

- Why do we still read this?