Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Today was our first official day of integration with Geography. Both freshmen classes joined together and held our first Socratic Seminars on both A Lesson Before Dying and your international events assignment. The group was split into two discussion groups that were mixed with folks from both classes so you all could get a chance to get to know one another. After going over a power point on Seminar protocol and guidelines, we gave everyone some time to get notes together, consider some guiding questions (for a copy of these questions, see me or Ms.Cody,) and introduce yourself to members of the other class. The rest of the time was spent in your discussion group! Part of your grade for this assignment was turning in a total of three things: 1) you current events to Ms. Cody, 2) your quotes and questions from English that was assigned on Friday (turned in to me), and 3) and "exit pass" from the seminar that contained three comments you heard during the discussion that you thought were interesting and one or two comments that you did not get a chance to share during the discussion. If you were absent, please see me or Ms. Cody for a make-up assignment.