SOCRATIC SEMINAR DATES and READING ASSIGNMENTS
(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
