Analyzing a Play through Socratic Seminar
Analyzing a Play through Socratic Seminar
Objective
After reading a play, students will use their scripts to identify character types, analyze text, and create open-ended questions about the play, in order to prepare for a formal discussion about the play they have just read.
Description
The lesson is designed to introduce students to the Socratic Seminar, a formal discussion, based on a piece of text, in our case, a play, in which the student leader asks open-ended questions. During the discussion, you listen closely to the comments of others, thinking critically for yourselves, and articulate you own thoughts and responses to the thoughts of others in our class.
Students will spend time exploring the script preparing for the formal discussion.