The Socratic Experience and Day 2 of Your A.P. Overture: August 22, 2017

Focus: What does a real Socratic seminar look like? How do we prepare for it?

1. Clarifying your "Focus and Grit" grade and our class cell phone policy

 In a nutshell:

1. Work ruthlessly on A.P. Lit from bell to bell.
2. Keep your cell phone in your bag unless invited to to take it out.
3. Use your laptop for what we're doing in class (turn off IM and other distracting pop-ups).
4. Your "Focus and Grit" grade will reflect your focus and help you figure out what student skills you need to work on before you leave AHS.

2. Warming up with Ms. Leclaire's favorite trick and your first whiteboard challenge: Close reading the title

3. Offering you an overview of Socratic seminars and an explanation of Socratic grades

4. Creating your first Socratic tickets and playing your first round of Socratic ticket musical chairs

5. Trying out your first Socratic seminar on "Werewolves in Their Youth"

6. Debriefing as a class and reflecting on Socratic individually

• What did we do well?
• What do we need to work on?  How?
• How would you grade your first time participating in an A.P. Lit Socratic?

HW:
1. For tomorrow (Wednesday): 

• Signed class policies are due.
• Bring a charged laptop.
• If you've started working on your college essays, bring in anything you have so far.

2. For Thursday: Bring paper and a pen or pencil for your first timed writing (on "Werewolves"). Bring your copy of "Werewolves" to class as well.

3. For Friday: Make sure you have completed the survey I e-mailed you last Thursday (and encourage your parents/guardians to complete theirs, too). Sign up for Remind texts by clicking  here.

4. Peering into next week: Reread the first half of Oedipus Rex for Monday and the second half for Wednesday; bring Oedipus and How To Read Literature...to class each day next week.