Friday, March 28th

Preparation for Things Fall Apart Socratic Seminar.

In your small groups complete the following:

1. Select 4 sentences from Part 2 of TFA that your group can diagram. Keep in mind, you are going to be looking for sentences that are somewhat simple sentences or compounds. Its ok if there are a few words that you are unsure of their placement. We are going to be using these for the basis of your discussion of language.

• Talk about the placement of words.
• What is being emphasized?
• What is de-emphasized?
• What do you learn about meaning in its context by looking at its grammar? 

2. Read through the TFA Socratic Seminar Discussion questions. Beyond the mandatory question, your group will select THREE questions that your group will be preparing for the seminar next week.  You will need plenty of direct evidence... so you are preparing with lots of direct quotes.

TFA Discussion Questions- Socratic Seminar

Socratic Seminar Handout- Scoring Guide

Upcoming Schedule:

• Monday, April 1st: Quiz over Part 2 of Things Fall Apart
• Tuesday, Aprl 2nd: Finish preparation of discussion questions for Socratic seminar over Parts 1 and 2 of Things Fall Apart. 4th hour: WE WILL BE MEETING IN ROOM 2116 ON TUESDAY.
• Wednesday/Thursday, April 3rd/4th: Socratic Seminar over Things Fall Apart Parts 1 and 2.
• Friday, April 5th: Finish the book. 
• Monday, April 8th: Quiz over entire book.