• Home
  • Opportunites/Programs
  • Worksheets!
  • Units
  • Castle Learning!
  • HUSH
  • APUSH Blog
  • YouTube Channel
  • Contact Me
  • HUSH
  • Snap/JupiterGrades
  • Grading Policy & Classroom Rules
  • News! News! News!
  • Download Google Earth!
  • Global Regents Review
  • Home
    • xAPUSH Blog
    • Castle Learning!
    • zAPUSH Blog

"1984" Socratic Seminar #2

2/5/2010

12 Comments

 
Picture

Well done on the Socratic Seminar, although we really need to be careful not to talk over one another/interrupt one another...

Andrew -- "Do you think Julia has an influence on Winston and is it positive or negative?"

-- Angie -- yes, very important to his thoughts -- he's able to express himself with her
-- Regina -- yes and no -- she just wants to go against them

Regina is now attempting to spoil the book for everyone by telling them that there's a telescreen in the room -- but does it work???
-- Angie wonders if Julia is against him -- is she working for the government?


Angie -- "In the U.S., is there a group like the Brotherhood (against the government) in our country?  Like Al Qaeda?"
-- Katherine -- like the people who are hiding Osama Bin Laden

Regina -- "If we'd lost certain wars in the world, how do you think things would have been different?" -- ex. Civil War?
Katherine -- Battle of Tours -- would have changed us to Muslims (way to get the global class in there!)
Randy -- Revolutionary War -- if the British has won, would have been the same as Big Brother

Katherine -- "Do you think that the history we know makes up the country today?" -- the things we learn about in the textbooks
-- Regina -- because we know our history, we look to it to think about what we'll do in the future -- they don't have a specific truth
-- Katherine -- what if they brainwashed kids to remember certain things?
Regina -- we have certain goals -- if you don't know the history, how can you get to those goals
Shelly -- if you don't have the information, how are you going to live in your future?

Justin -- "Do you think that Julia's part of working with Big Brother is planned?  Is the note meant for someone else?"
-- Regina -- thinks Julia is a "mole" -- she's watching him
-- Shelly -- she's breaking the rules too
-- Angie -- thinks Julia's trying to get him in trouble
-- Regina -- foreshadowing?
-- Justin -- connection -- Big Brother is like the Capital in Hunger games because Winston is going against Big Brother the way the girl goes against the government
-- Katherine - p. 125 - there are others breaking the rules -- they think others are into Big Brother so they don't know that each of them is against the government... If they get together, and with the Proles, they'd bring the government down

Justin -- "I wanted to rape her and then murder her" (p. 121)... Question -- Why is love equal to violence?"

Andrew -- "I want people to be corrupt to the bone...'  Why doesn't he like perfect people -- does it have to do with Big Brother?"
-- Justin -- wants to share the blame
-- Shelly -- Big Brother wants people to be perfect (for him)

Angie (p. 75) -- "We're all already dead" -- they're willing to die for something
-- Katherine -- how are people from the future going to know they tried to make a change if they change the future?"

Ms. Cohen -- "Is it worth fighting for something if it's a losing cause?"
-- Katherine -- yes, people will finally open their eyes -- people have to die for causes
-- Regina -- it's because of people we don't write about what we do things in the future -- influence those we know about
-- Shelly -- MLK might have been influenced by people we didn't know

Regina -- "What's up with Winston being completely terrified by rats?"


The perfect ending question -- you'll realize why as you read on... :)

12 Comments
Ms. Cohen
2/5/2010 07:36:52 am

I just posted the transcript of the Socratic Seminar today. I have one comment off of a comment made by Regina... She said that "because we know our history, we look to it to think about what we'll do in the future." Question - what happens to a culture where they forget their past?

An author named George Santayana once made a very famous comment... "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." What do you think of this comment? Do you believe this is true? Not true? Why? (if you don't know what "condemned" means, look it up!)

Reply
Ms. Cohen
2/5/2010 10:15:27 pm

i was just watching tv and there was a news story that was entitled "Big Brother & Baby DNA"... It was about how our government is apparently storing baby's DNA indefinitely (forever) without parents' permission. One mother is now suing the government because they never got her permission to do this. Scary, huh?

Reply
Regina
2/7/2010 04:51:10 am

First of all I would like to apologize for spoiling that little detail of the book for everyone. Secondly, I would really like to apologize for cutting people off. Over all I think without the cut offs we would have done really well. Looking forward to our next Socratic seminar.

Reply
Katherine
2/7/2010 06:25:17 am

I think the seminar went ok, I feel like the 1st one was better. On this seminar I think we weren't able to fully discuss one topic, and people were getting cut off. So I hope I do better in the next one.

Reply
Andreina
2/7/2010 06:32:55 am

I will like to apologize to Regina because I rudely cut her off to make Andrew speak. Referring to the quote that Ms.Cohen meantioned I agree with the quote strongly. When a person is aware of the mistakes they made in their past they learn from it, therefore, not making the same mistake again. However, if a person does not know their past there is no way for them to be aware of the mistakes they made, therefore, repeating the mistakes they made because they werent aware that they did it in the first place.

I find it freaky that our goverment was storing baby's DNA. What will be there purpose of doing that? Can it be for cloning but if so for what?

Reply
Randy
2/8/2010 07:19:08 am

I heard about that story about the government keeping DNA from babies. To me, I think it seems likely to happen eventually. It's a way to keep the records everyone in the world. It wouldn't surprise me if the government kept my DNA all this time. But I also think it violates the privacy of a person. As for the Socratic seminar, I guess it went well. Do they have these seminars in college, or did we make this up?

Reply
Ms. Cohen
2/8/2010 07:24:28 am


Haha! Did we just make this up! Nope, Socrates did that... I'm not going to say that you'll be doing a certain number of socratic seminars in college - it would depend on what you end up majoring in... I think a Socratic Seminar is just a good way to get the students talking about a topic and not just the teachers talking at students...

Reply
Andrew
2/8/2010 08:32:20 am

The Socratic Seminar went really well thought i wish we would nOt talk over each other. I was mostly so quiet because of that. Every second i was going to say something, some one was already saying something. So i tried my best. Well i learn from my mistakes and next time i will say more.

Reply
Cheap Jordans Shoes link
3/22/2011 07:11:27 pm

There is no rose without a thorn.

Reply
cheap supra shoes link
4/10/2011 11:35:33 pm

Name which safety techniques you knew and practiced from before and which you have only learned this past week. Was there anything new that you learned in your first food lab

Reply
Fotograf Warszawa link
7/26/2012 11:50:05 pm

Howdy! I just wish to give a huge thumbs up for the excellent info you may have here on this post. I will probably be coming back to your weblog for much more soon.

Reply
Pozycjonowanie link
8/2/2012 10:03:32 am

I'm often to blogging and i truly appreciate your site content continuously. The write-up has truly peaks my interest. Let me bookmark your blog and keep checking choosing data.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Assignments:

    1.  Answer any and all blog posts to the left by their due dates (which can be found on SnapGrades)

    2.  Watch "60 Minutes" and answer the questions on the blog (due Monday).

    3.  Vocab sentences.

    MATCHING GAME!
    100 Most Common SAT Words
    PLAY!!!
    http://www.quia.com/mc/1527

    * Ms. Cohen's Contact Information *
    Email:ms.cohen@mhvpschool.com
    AIM: melissacohen00
    Phone: 646-242-9675

    Archives

    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.