Warm-Up!Write A Letter To Stephen1) Please write me a letter approximately 1 page introducing yourself. You can say whatever you feel would help me to get to know you, or anything I need to know to teach you effectively. 2) Below is a list of suggestions to consider. - Your Humanities (English/Social Studies) experience, how much you enjoy or struggle the subject(s), what you like or dislike, etc. - Your educational preferences, learning style, types of projects that work well for you, where you struggle. - Your role in the classroom, personality type, roles you typically fill in a group. - General talents, both in and out of the classroom. - Your interests and hobbies. - Future plans, career, course of study, etc. Socratic Seminar: "The Function of Education"Discussion Questions 1) Why do you think the author wonders if we’ve asked ourselves what education means? Have you before today? 2) Are the only two options of education 1) to pass examinations and get a job or 2) prepare us while we are young to understand the whole process of a life? 3) Is education a struggle for you? 4) How do you define “livelihood” (page 1, line 9) 5) What does the author mean by the phrase “the hidden things of the mind.” What does he say these things are? 6) Why does the author say that if you are wealthy, get a comfortable job, get married, there you will decay, deteriorate. Do you agree? Why or why not? 7) What is education? Who does it to who? Does it ever stop? 8) What do you think the author values? 9) What do you value in life? Seminar Reflection |
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