5PA Socratic Seminar Guidelines
• Listen carefully
- Don’t raise hands
- Come prepared, having read the text and annotated key parts that provide evidence for the questions
• Address one another respectfully
• Base any opinions on the text
• Address comments to the group (no side conversations)
• Use sensitivity to take turns and not interrupt others
• Monitor ‘air time’
• Be courageous in presenting your own thoughts and reasoning, but be flexible and willing to change your mind in the face of new and compelling evidence during the Seminar
• Address each other and not Mr. Schumann!
• Leader will pose the key questions to start, but you can develop questions as well
• Relate your statements to particular passages, to clarify, and to elaborate
• If the conversation gets off track, leader will refocus students on the opening question by restating it.
• Leader will Invite those who have not spoken into the conversation.