Socratic Seminar Reflection #3

Socratic Seminar Reflection #3

This socratic seminar influenced my thinking on the way that love and affection is portrayed in this text. Most of my classmates talked instead about the relationship between Winston and Julia and the definition and veracity of love in the book's totalitarian society. This allowed me to think about 1984 in a more emotional way, and relate it back to my own life and the relationships I have both seen and experienced, instead of simply thinking about it in terms of similarity to historical events.

I think that the thing that i disagreed with most in the socratic seminars would be when someone said that they would rather live in the world of 1984, that just seems like an unbearable living that i would never want to subject my life to. Whereas the statement that I agree with the most would be when someone said that they believed that it was more than Julia and Winston attraction to each other, was because of their mutual hate for the party. I feel that this is greatly true by the way that, it seems that whenever they are together though they are constantly in intercourse it would seem that they genuinely care for each other. I don't feel that there is anything that I would have wanted to say during this seminar that I hadn't said.

I feel that thing that worked well in the seminar would be the way that before Ms. Hunter came, the conversation just went more fluidly. It just seemed that people were less focused on the points, and just felt that there was a regular conversation going on. This was shown by the way that there were more opinions and emotional appeals shown because people were just stating what they though about the text, without feeling that they had to analyze in depth or even back their answers up with any evidence, but that they could just say what they wanted to say without being graded or ridiculed. this is truly the way that the seminars should be.

I think that one good way to change this would be to include more level three questions in the discussions, so that even students who didn't have the chance to read the selection or didn't understand it fully would be able to get some points and participate in the conversation. Such as the way that I know a certain person wasn't able to fully complete their work, because they were focused on reading there independent novel and 1984 while doing the work for both. this may and will probably be a thing that is evident all the future seminars, but it is also something that might be inevitable.