New ideas were introduced in the Socratic Seminar. My ideas were generally agreeing to the rest of my groups. The discussions caused the thinking and reasoning to look into a deeper level of thinking. The reasearch of finding the relation between real people of the world and characters in the book led to interesting distractions when looking at scientists and thinkers that helped inspire part of a character in "Brave New World."
I could not find a way to approach question with others around me thinking about the question and bringing more ideas. The main themes of the book came out in greater detail. In order to improve my part in the dialogues, I would prepared more in order to find even more different ideas to put into the discussion. Getting into the conversation seemed to be difficult with the idea quickly being taken by someone else in the group. The format for the Socratic Seminar can work with all of the members of the dialogue being able to enter into the conversation of the group.
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Jumping into the conversation can be difficult. If you're a bit shy, preparing really good notes can help. If you have several questions penned, several bits of researched info to share, several "big ideas" to introduce, your chances greatly improve for at least one of these not being introduced by someone else.
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