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PERFORMANCE TASK 2: SOCRATIC SEMINAR
Part 1. Engage in a group jigsaw to examine “The Country That Stopped Reading” by David Toscana, “The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story Is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains” by Leo Widrich, and “Video Games and the Future of Storytelling” by Salman Rushdie.
For each text, your group will use a three-column graphic organizer to summarize each text and:
(1) identify each claim or point made in the order it is made;
(2) describe how each claim or point is developed and refined by particular phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or sections; and
(3) identify the connections made between claims. (RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.3, RI.9-10.5)
(4) reread the text and highlight or circle words and phrases that reveal the author’s attitude toward the subject of the text. (RI.9-10.4)
(5) determine a central idea of the text and assess whether the author’s reasoning is valid and the evidence sufficiently supports the author’s claims. (RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.8)
Part 2. Conduct a Socratic Seminar in which you will assess the value of reading stories and books based on the texts analyzed in the jigsaw and using the following prompting questions:
• According to the various authors and points of views presented in the texts we’ve read in this unit, what is the value of reading?
• Do we need books and stories? Are they important? Why? What are we denied when we are denied access to books?
• Has the value of reading changed over time? How and why has it?
• Has our society learned from Fahrenheit 451?
• What issues raised in Fahrenheit 451 remain critical to our society today?
3. Considering all of this and reflecting back on the lessons learned from Black Like Me, what do you believe the future of the American Dream is for your generation? Use this Socratic Seminar as a brainstorming exercise to develop a research question for your Capstone Research Project.
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