The highlight of our week was the introduction of a 'Socratic Seminar,' a group activity where an open ended question was presented to the class, and we had to answer and elaborate on it as a class without any guidance from the teacher. We were told to answer 3 questions from "A Sound of Thunder" that took up the whole class period on Tuesday! In order for the seminar to be successful, each student had to come prepared, contribute,quote from the text, and build off of each other's answers. It was really interesting to hear everyone's opinion, and how those opinions shaped each others. In the middle of the week, we were supposed to discuss the story "Marigolds" and how/when one looses his or her innocence, but we ended up creating the word 'bubble pop' ! Towards the end of the week, Ms. Nickow revealed that our short story final would be on Tuesday of next week, and we had a game of jeoprady review to help us prepare!! To sum it up, it would be a sad thing if you missed even one day of this week :)
Emily
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