Romeo And Juliet Socratic Seminar

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Socratic Seminars are a great way to build critical thinking and communication skills by making students think differently about a subject. I will discuss my experience during our Socratic Seminar about the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The main topics addressed in this essay are the foremost vital ideas, discussing what students said, how I think I did, my likes and dislikes, how it influenced my thinking, and my goal for the next seminar. During our Socratic Seminar, I started by spectating the first group's thoughts about drawings related to Romeo and Juliet, where they discussed their answers from three different slides. During slide one, the students conversed about a drawing portraying a skeleton with an arrow through its chest, sitting in a nest surrounded by a plant and a large arrow with wings outside it. The students …show more content…

Their main thoughts on the painting were the mood of the painting, and they concluded that people mainly disagreed on the point that the image portrayed enough tragedy of what happened in Romeo and Juliet. Everyone agreed that the two lovers should be light in color, while the background should be dark to put the focus on the two lovers and less on the background. Lastly, they discussed slide three, an image with two hands holding swords, crossing with three snakes that spell out ACT, and three lines at the bottom saying “three.” Many people had different views on all the main parts of the images; some examples are people arguing if the two hands holding the swords represent the feuding families, Romeo and Tybalt, or Tybalt and Mercutio. They all agreed that the snakes represented Mercutio, Tybalt, and Romeo but couldn't agree on which person was which snake. Many students had interesting views on many slides, but one of Sean's comments stood out. In slide two, one of the questions was, “What kind of plants are featured in this

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