Socratic Seminar Reflection

During the Socratic seminar, I heard a lot of interesting common things about the immigration specifics from 3 different sources. I also noticed that these 3 different sources are related to the past and modern immigration law of United States of America. For example, an article from a CNN source talks about President Donald Trump’s new immigration order ban on Muslim countries. “He also suspended for three months entry by citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — on immigrant or non-immigrant visas---” (CNN) In this quote, President Donald Trump ordered an immigration ban on Muslims. This immigration topic relates to CWRIC and a Farewell to Manzanar novel because back in World World

My time spent in the Clinical setting, so far, has been extremely inciteful as to how to become a better educator in a classroom setting. Through the data I collected I was able to connect Borich’s Seven Variables of learning to the students. By being in the clinical setting for nearly two months, I have been exposed to new ways of thinking when it comes to structuring a classroom and instructing a classroom. Within this reflection you will find out how I would better plan an effective lesson for the pupils in my future classroom. You will also discover what I will do about certain issues in the classroom and how I will address/fix them.

During the Socratic seminar, Lizzy did well on contributing to the seminar with comments and questions. She also did well on pushing the conversation on by helping clarify either her own questions or the ones that were asked by other students. Adding onto this, she also did well on paying attention to what everyone had to say or ask and tried to answer or clarify what they were trying to ask or explain. When she spoke, she did speak loud and clear but could have been louder and also could have pronounced her words better. She was decent on everything; however, she can improve on everything as well. Though, she spoke more than once during the seminar, she could have spoken more than the few times that she did. This would have helped both her

I have learned so much over the last few months. The lessons that I have acquired in PA Seminar class are invaluable as I embark on my journey to become a future physician assistant.

Before the Seminar began, I gave students note sheets that were organized with space for them to write down three quotes or ideas from the NPR article and three quotes or ideas for Romeo and Juliet. Since we had been reading Romeo and Juliet, I allowed students to write down general ideas or look through the text to quote a specific scene; as long as their notes had to do with Romeo and Juliet’s decision-making, the students were on the right track. I linked students to the NPR article and encouraged them to listen to the podcast version while they read it. Once students had three notes on both Romeo and Juliet and three notes on the NPR article, the Seminar began. Group one lead the discussion around young people and their rushed decision making in relation to Romeo and Juliet as well as in relation to the neuroscience behind the teenage brain and decision making. As group one spoke one at a time, building on each other's points, group two were busy with a task of their own. Instead of being passive listeners, I had students in group two write down three interesting points that they heard from group one; this kept group two focused and gave them more opportunities to build on their classmates’ ideas. Once group one’s discussion came to a close, they traded roles with group

Throughout the English 111 class, my writing ability has grown to meet all of the course outcomes. In this class I was required to analyze fictional texts and make complex claims that matter in an academic contexts and revise them in order to make grammatical sense. For the 1.0 sequence I focused on Night, by Elie Wiesel and Sarah’s Key, written by Tatiana de Rosnay. Short papers 1.1 and 1.2, focused on each book respectively while major paper 1.3 allowed me to back my claim with both of the texts allowing for a larger exchange of ideas. Within the 2.0 sequence I focused mainly on the Poisonwood Bible, penned by Barbra Kingsolver. The short paper I have chosen to focus on for this sequence was 2.2; in which I had to write a letter to a character

Class Discussion #4: Chapters 5 & 6 (Health Care and End of Life Decisions and video)

As the commentaries have said what improvements of the seminar, I think they missed a few points that I would like to add first would be multiple people started talking along with their academic transitions and were more comfortable along the way better giving their points on the topics. Also the fact that they brought hand gestures and better eye contact really help comply what they were trying to say.Surprisingly I never really saw or heard any lacking conversations between the discussants. As a coach during the seminar I would say everyone went above and beyond and everyone did a fruitful

Group one, I really enjoyed listening to your discussion on the short story, “Love in L.A,” by Dagoberto Gilb. Your tone of voice kept me intrigued throughout the entire presentation. It is well put together and you also make it easy to follow along with even if you have not read the story. It is helpful that you started it with a summary of the story and then with an explanation of a biological strategy. It provided a better understanding about what is about to be thoroughly discussed in your presentation. It also makes it clear as to why it is helpful in literature. “It gives you, the reader, more insight into the characters and events that happen so that you can better understand everything. In knowing the author’s intentions behind the

In the module for week two there were several ideas that you can implement in your classroom. For instance you could try the walk and talk discussion strategy. This strategy simply means that the students read a selected piece of literature and have a small-group discussion about teacher-created topics posted around the room. The resources/idea for this strategy includes identifying main ideas and develop 4-5 questions pertaining to the ideas. Afterword’s you type up questions to be printed out and placed around the room. You then should secure large sheets of butcher paper or whiteboard space for the students to write down the groups’ ideas, once this task is completed make sure you have supplied each group with dry erase or regular felt tip pens.

The seminar that was conducted among the students in the IB English class focused on the novel “A Prayer for Owen Meany” and the film “Simon Birch”. Upon this two topic, the students were able to concisely derive insightful meanings of the both the novel and the film. Personally, I believe that the class did an incredible job in conducting the seminar. All students had an opportunity to participate and certain students asked questions that transpired in the entire class to engage in a sociable discussion. However, there were a few flaws that seemed to recurrently appear during the seminar. These flaws that I noticed during the seminar was the format in which the seminar was conducted, for instance, I noticed that the class had a tendency to

Throughout the semester I have explored many topics in sociology. While exploring these topics, three main theoretical perspectives were used. I will briefly illustrate each of the main theoretical perspectives of functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic Interactionism. During this semester I have watched two films, Food Incorporated and The Vernon Johns Story. I will describe how a theoretical perspective is used in each of these examples. Then I will provide my own two examples where concepts and theoretical perspectives can be illustrated. My First example is the Boston Marathon Bombings and the second is the Mass Media’s coverage of the Boston Bombings.

The Last Lecture is equally a telling of how Randy Pausch lived his life and a guide on how others should live theirs. Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and gave his last lecture after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. However, this lecture was not filled with weepy memories of his family or things he wished he could change. Instead, it was a recount of how he was able to achieve all of his childhood dreams and steps for anyone to do the same. Almost everything Randy says in his lecture are extremely quotable words to live by. He touches upon some of the most fundamental themes that everyone can understand, like the benefits of a positive attitude and how to overcome obstacles to achieve your dreams.

The discussion for my assigned reading went better than I expected. This book was a bit of a challenge to read because e of the way that its written. Even though this reading isn’t one of my favorites, it was a challenge for me, therefor it made me want to understand it more. I think that the discussion went well, many students shared their opinion, and for the most part, the subjects of the discussion intermingled. It was good to hear that many students shared some of the same thoughts. I think that this made the discussion interesting because they felt comfortable sharing their opinion and thoughts about the book. I really enjoyed leading discussion because I was forced to share my opinion and listen carefully to others in order to agree or disagree with what they said.

What was the central idea of the speech? How were the central idea and main points of the speech previewed?