Socratic Seminar Reflection

The Socratic seminar influenced my thinking on the topic by improving my intellectual way of thinking as a reader and connecting ideas back from text to text.One thing that had made me think was how a student stated evidence from the book and had very good develop level 3 question.. I was impressed that people who doesn't talk actually talked during this group discussion.

One thing that made me thing was when a student asked the group: "What is love?". This was actually a good questions some students couldn't really explain what it mean, since live have a deeper meaning to explain with just words. 

The less dominant group worked out okay. Everybody was sorta prepared to answer question. I say this because since we read the book together in class and clarified each meaning of lines in the book we were able to justify our intellectual meaning of  the book; by doing so we were ready fro the Socratic seminar.

Two thing that need improvement is picking a stronger group leader, one that would pick a student on the spot and give strong level 3 and 2 question. Another is putting at least 2-3 dominant people in the less dominant group, to make the group flow by faster. I say thing because if you do so, when a student asks a question to another maybe a dominant student can clarify for the whole group and it would make everything much easier/

Other Wes Moore #2

The theme of chapter 2 of which I've chosen Poverty and Mentoring.

 I've chosen Poverty as the theme because Wes is living in a bad condition apartment, and doesn't really like the place. The living condition is horrible but some of the people are used to it living in the projects. This type of living is horrible, living inside this area would get you discriminate as a place that do drugs and is a local gang hang out. I wouldn't live in these type of area, but poverty had led them into it.

"The Uplands became home to a thriving middle class, while over 1,700 units in Cherry Hill became a breeding ground for poverty, drugs, and despair"

"The walls and floors were covered in filth and graffiti"D

This quote reveals that society is messed and cruel, one group of people have suffer while the other group strive. This shows the economic wealth in Wes family and shows their class ranking.

"The extreme heat in my poorly ventilated room woke me in the middle of the night. I was dying of thirs

This quote shows that with poverty it can worsen a person living condition and can cause some type of harm to a person physical body.These type of conditon can kill somebody, with the high level of heat Wes could of died from dehydration or had a heat stroke. They don't have enough money to buy a cheap fan to cool down the window, so they'll have to put up with it. 

I've chosen Mentoring because his brother has been looking after him and giving him tips. His brother is basically like his right hand, he teaches him how to defend himself. Wes follows his mentor into the life on crime and no chance of going back.

"'Rule number one: If someone disrespects you, you send a message so fierce that they won't have the chance to do it again"  (^ this goes for above)

"His grip on the knife handle tightened...Send a message"

Wes disregarded everything that was happening around him, even with the police infront of him. He was ready to kill or seriously injure somebody. When Wes was little anytime things were bad he would jump right in it/