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katreenajean · Oct 23, 2011, 12:06 PM

I have to make some questions for a Socratic seminar on the short story, "On the sidewalk bleeding," but I'm really confused on what kind of questions to ask. Any ideas?

Fr_Chuck · Oct 23, 2011, 12:26 PM

I have no idea what you are talking about, can you clarify the question

katreenajean · Oct 23, 2011, 12:32 PM

There is a short story called "On The Sidewalk Bleeding" and I need to creat some questions for my socratic seminar but I am a little confused on what kind of questions I should be asking. Does this make sense?

Wondergirl · Oct 23, 2011, 12:38 PM

So you understand what a Socratic seminar is and how that works?

katreenajean · Oct 23, 2011, 02:01 PM

I am I little confused on exactly what your supost to do. Is it just like discussing the text or am I wrong?

Wondergirl · Oct 23, 2011, 02:02 PM

You've read the story, right?

Wondergirl · Oct 23, 2011, 02:08 PM

Socratic is asking questions to pull information out of someone. And asking questions of those who ask questions -- so as to dig deeper.

For instance, the question could be, Do you feel Andy got what he deserved? The Socratic question in response to that could be, What would have happened had he not been wearing his jacket?

katreenajean · Oct 23, 2011, 08:49 PM

Okay thank you! This helped a lot!

Wondergirl · Oct 23, 2011, 09:03 PM

So if I asked the question, "Why didn't any of those people who saw him lying in the alley call the cops?" what would you then ask as a Socratic question? (There's no one right question to ask. Just dig deeper with a question.)

Possibilities: What did some of them notice he was wearing? Or What were they too busy doing instead of noticing him?