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We want to encourage all students to participate in Socratic Seminars when they are done in class. All students have a voice and need to be heard. We have talked with many students during conferences and want all to participate in the dialogue process. Please, talk about socratic seminar with your child and give them encouragement to partake in getting out of their comfort zone of not participating.
Our next socratic seminar will take place this Friday, November 3rd and the students will discuss the poem One Voice, also by Shel Silverstein .They have been assigned the poem today, October 30th. They will be looking at its meaning, and how it connects to their own lives and the rest of the world.
The 6th grade teacher team was fortunate enough to go to a training on Socratic Seminars! We learned so much two days and are so excited to do them in our classes! We have done 2 different discussions so far and the kids love them! It has given teachers and students such amazing insight into each others opinions and thoughts. We are so excited to use this same process with our Social Studies Simulations we will be starting very soon!
For more information about them click below:
www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/socratic-seminars-30600.html
Friday, August 24th- We had another socratic seminar where the poem, I Won't Hatch, by Shel Silverstein was discussed and students talked about what the poem meant to them.
F I R E by September RoseOnce we were on fireYoung rebellious freeWe stormed the castles and took to the skies we flew we dreamedWe were ablaze our light setting raging screaming fire to the world around usWhen our thoughts could not sit in silence any longerWhen the kids were engulfed by a wave of fury of the injustice done by this world before we were even here
We screamed and demanded OUR VOICES WOULD BE HEARDBut now it rainsNow the cold heavy water blankets the restless The fire has been drenched in worry and stressThe brutal downpour has distracted all with false life or death The blaze once 100 feet high now nothing but a charred soul
And all the ones put out by the raintoo tired to fight again,pray on the generation next That their fire is enough to best the storm"Golden" by Ruth B.
The fire used to burn, all the words used to hurtBut you're not like us, you are differentI couldn't see that that was a complimentCause the last thing I want now is to be youAnd the flames don't feel as hot as they use to
Burn, burn, burnThey used to yellYou thought I was coalMy friend, I'm goldCan't you tell?
Cause I'm not weak, I'm not broken I am boldAnd the fire you put me through turned me into goldI'm not done, I'm no loserWatch me take on my bright futureTonight I'm no bronze I'm no silverYou'll be thinking, damn I knew herBut you didn'tDon't get it twisted
Out of the ashes you buried me inI, I am goldenI, I am golden
You tried so hard to break me downLike a fire-breathing dragon, but I guess I took your crownYou pushed for me to change for youBut I'm so glad that I stayed true to who I am
The fire that you tried to burn me with, it made me who I amAll the things that you said I couldn't doGuess what, Yes I canI, I am golden, golden, go-olden
We screamed and demanded OUR VOICES WOULD BE HEARDBut now it rainsNow the cold heavy water blankets the restless The fire has been drenched in worry and stressThe brutal downpour has distracted all with false life or death The blaze once 100 feet high now nothing but a charred soul
And all the ones put out by the raintoo tired to fight again,pray on the generation next That their fire is enough to best the storm"Golden" by Ruth B.
The fire used to burn, all the words used to hurtBut you're not like us, you are differentI couldn't see that that was a complimentCause the last thing I want now is to be youAnd the flames don't feel as hot as they use to
Burn, burn, burnThey used to yellYou thought I was coalMy friend, I'm goldCan't you tell?
Cause I'm not weak, I'm not broken I am boldAnd the fire you put me through turned me into goldI'm not done, I'm no loserWatch me take on my bright futureTonight I'm no bronze I'm no silverYou'll be thinking, damn I knew herBut you didn'tDon't get it twisted
Out of the ashes you buried me inI, I am goldenI, I am golden
You tried so hard to break me downLike a fire-breathing dragon, but I guess I took your crownYou pushed for me to change for youBut I'm so glad that I stayed true to who I am
The fire that you tried to burn me with, it made me who I amAll the things that you said I couldn't doGuess what, Yes I canI, I am golden, golden, go-olden
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