Common Core Standards
The Socratic Seminar is an excellent tool for active student engagement and participation. I will describe techniques I’ve used in my classroom to enhance the seminar in the “Teaching Strategies” section. Please recognize that this type of communication meets many of the Common Core Standards: SL 7.1A, 7.1B, 7.1C, and 7.1D. Essentially, these standards require students to come to seminars prepared, express ideas in a collegial setting, pose questions that elicit and spark interesting discussion, and respond to what their peers are saying with adequate responses.
Finally, as students read Eyes Wide Open, they will cite information from the text to support information about the text and inferences drawn from the text (RI 7.1). They will determine how the theme of environmentalism is revealed throughout the book and by the subtopics of the book (RI 7.2). They will analyze how the actions of a consumerist society impacts the greater environment of the world (RI 7.3). Students will determine the author’s point of view and analyze critically the credibility and bias of the information provided (RI 7.7). They will analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts (RI 7.9). Also, students will compare fiction and nonfiction texts to counterpart video interpretations and explanations of the topic (RL 7.7).
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