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SOCRATIC SEMINAR DATES and READING ASSIGNMENTS

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(all due-dates & assignments subject to change by teacher)

Practice/Teacher-Directed Seminar) Friday, October 30th - "A Hanging" by George Orwell

1.) Thursday, November 05th - "Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space" by Brent Staples

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Marvin, Slabaugh, and Zdziarski

3rd Hour Student Leaders: DeLor, King, McLeod, Regorrah

2.) Thursday, November 12th - " Into the Electronic Millennium" by Sven Birkerts

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Firavich, Pietrzak, and Underhill

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Erickson, Phillips, Piper

3.) Thursday, December 03rd - "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Mediate, Shah, and Shallman

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Curtis, Roberts, Wozniak

4.) Thursday, December 17th - "Don't Let Stereotypes Warps Your Judgments" by Robert L. Heilbroner

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Crabbe, Feenstra, and Lagowski

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Fox, Wasik, Watson

5.) Thursday, January 07th - "An Evolutionist Look at Modern Man" by Loren Eiseley

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Currier, Killingbeck, and Turner

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Burt, Chodos, Sloan

6.) Thursday, January 14th - "The Holy War: Mac vs. Dos" by Umberto Eco

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Beutler and Housley

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Limburg, More, Rinkus

7.) Thursday, February 04th - "Can We Know the Universe?" by Carl Sagan

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Grosso and Roberts

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Burt, Erickson, Piper, Rinkus

8.) Thursday, February 18th - "On Dumpster Diving" by Lars Eighner

2nd Hour Student Leaders:Lehnert and Nichols

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Limburg, Roberts, Sloan

9.) Thursday, March 04th - "The Destructive Male" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Rize and Stark

3rd Hour Student Leaders: King, More, Phillips

10.) Thursday, March 18th - "The Hidden Life of Dogs" by Dave Barry

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Bauer and Riccardi

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Chodos, McLeod, Watson

11.) Thursday, April 15th - "Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Ellsworth and Wright

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Delor, Regorrah, Wasik

12.) Thursday, April 22nd - "Turbulence" by David Sedaris

2nd Hour Student Leaders: Johnson and Mattioli

3rd Hour Student Leaders: Curtis, Fox Wozniak