Seminar

Night Socratic Seminar Questions During our reading of Lord of the Flies, we asked the question: Are humans innately evil? In an interview, Golding stated, “Lord of the Flies was simply what it seemed sensible for me to write after the war, when everybody was thanking God they weren’t Nazis. And I’d seen enough and thought enough to realize that every single one of us could be Nazis.” After reading about the atrocities committed by Nazi soldiers, individuals are likely to feel deeply insulted…

In our One Flew socratic seminar, there were six questions among the discussion. Each represents a central theme to the book: Hemmingway's terms, racism, microcosm, democracy, drugs, and Looney’s are healthier than the sane. There were great discussions among these questions, and answers that gave extent towards real world examples and historical backgrounds. Throughout the discussion, there were many strong points discussed back and forth. One of the main ideas was the relation to real world…

Jalyn Prewitt HON 100 (Seminar) A higher power, whether of spirit or of nature, gifted all organisms one ever-changing opportunity to live a life fulfilled. This one opportunity provides every being with protection, sustainability, and growth. This single opportunity possesses the only known sources of life for galaxies around. This lone opportunity is our earth. Our earth has given us the resources needed to survive on essentially a floating incubator—providing all its inhabitants with warmth…

filled with nerves and uncertainty. In hopes to ease the transition universities have classes called First Year Seminars. They are classes that cover a wide range of subjects and interests. While this sounds like a positive thing, I believe that for a majority of freshman, first-year seminars are a waste of class hours and therefore money. Therefore, I believe that first-year seminars should not be a mandatory class for a student to graduate because of the effect on student GPA, the overall…

in depth understanding of the novel after the Socratic Seminar, due to hearing other’s opinions. When I first read the book, I was a little lost and had to kept rereading pages to make sure I fully understood the story. I started to understand what was going on and even decipher some of what Dickens is trying to express in this writing. After the circle, I was introduced to other opinions, and learn other things. One question in the seminar asks if Pip’s life would’ve been better if he had…

Reflection Essay It was my first semester taking online classes. I thought that it was going to be tough, but it ended up being easy. “CCS 120 EC Success Seminar” class was, definitely, a great help in this process. It taught me and motivated me on how to navigate the college’s website and how to use the different tools that the institution’s website has to aim students who are taking online courses. On the other hand, this class was a great benefit to enrich my knowledge on subject like…

Laken Riley Mrs. Chamberlain 10th Honors Lit./Comp. 14 August 2017 Socratic Seminar Questions World Connection Questions Question 1 Everyone has a right to their own thoughts and opinions of the world. To be exiled from your friends, or even family, would be devastating, angering, and confusing. I know the importance of being a part of something, such as a friend group, especially in high school. If I were forced to leave my friends because I had different views than them, I would be…

Bonnie Smith’s article Gender and the Practice of Scientific Research: The Seminar and Archival Research in the Nineteenth Century in the American Historical Review. Smith’s article is able to demonstrate to the reader what factors led to historical science becoming such a male dominated profession in the nineteenth century. Smith’s article argues, among other things, that the two practices in scientific history, the seminar and archival research, were fundamental as well as influential in the…

shelters into previously built constructions is very costly. The following is a proposal for a seminar that will educate all Oklahomans on the reasons why tornado…

learning and freshman seminar on retention, more evaluations and longer time frames are needed (Dabbour, 1997; Howard & Jones, 2000; Black et al., 2016). Only having a few weeks, it’s hard to determine which factors are actually having an effect. For the freshman seminar courses, Howard and Jones (2000) and Black et al. (2016) found that for a more accurate representation of retention, further research should be done on individual majors. Active learning and freshman seminar are an effective…