NAME:_________________________________ SEMINAR: Short Stories from POV book

Socratic Seminar Guidelines and Rubric

Guidelines for Participating

Come prepared. Bring notes and info that is relevant to the discussion.
Participate, participate, participate!
Back up your comments with evidence/ facts.
Try to comment on someone else's previous statement before you give yours.
Personal stories should have a direct connection to the facts.
Keep discussion alive by asking open-ended, thought-provoking questions.
Disagree with comments, not individuals. NEVER put anyone down.
Use your speaking time fairly (contribute but do not control).

Socratic Seminar Rubric

100-90 80-70 60-50 40-0 Total
Conduct *Patient with differing *Respectful. *Participates but *Disrespectful.
opinions. *Comments, but shows impatience. *Argumentative.
*Asks for clarification. does not attempt to *Some focus. *Does not participate.
*Brings others into the involve others. *Engages in
dialogue. *Generally focused. sidebar
*Very focused on the conversations.
dialogue.

Speaking *Speaks to all *Speaks to most *Speaks too softly. *Reluctant to speak.
participants. participants. *Needs prompting to *Comments do not
*Articulate. *Attempts to move get involved. support point.
*Takes a leadership role on to new ideas. *Has no sustainable
without monopolizing the *Tends to ramble point; uses sound
discussion. on after making a bites.
point. *Monopolizes the
discussion.
Reasoning *Cites relevant text. *Makes limited *Accurate on minor *Illogical comments.
*Relates topic to outside connections to points, but misses the *Ignores the
knowledge and other others ideas. main point. movement of the
topics. *Some intriguing *No textual support; seminar.
*Makes connections points that merit talking of the top of
between own thoughts reaction. your head.
and others. *Some references to *Refuses to
*Willing to take an text. acknowledge
alternate viewpoint. alternate viewpoints.
*Asks questions to further
dialogue.
Listening *Writes down comments, *Generally attentive *Appears *Inattentive.
questions, ideas. and focused. disconnected. *Comments show
*Builds on others ideas *Responds *Takes limited notes. lack of understanding.
& gives others credit. thoughtfully. *Takes no notes.
*Takes some notes.
Reading/ *Familiar with text. *Fairly familiar with *Confused with key *Unfamiliar with text.
*Understands major text. concepts of text. *Writing assignment
Preparation concepts. *Asks for references. *Writing assignment completed but not on
*Writing assignment *Writing assignment may be completed on time.
completed on time. completed on time. time. *Very much
*Was well prepared in *Was mostly *Occasionally unprepared in small
small discussion groups. prepared in small prepared in small discussion groups.
discussion groups discussion groups.

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