11.25 - This American Life: Is This Working?

We started today's class with an opportunity for people to revise their Poetry Out Loud performances. From here, we moved into listening to the episode of This American Life that we will be discussion tomorrow in our Socratic seminar. We reviewed the process for a Socratic seminar, how to take notes during the podcast, and then began listening to the podcast (see links below). In class, we listened to the first two acts of the podcast with everyone completing the Socratic seminar prep sheet on these acts.

This American Life, "Episode 538: Is This Working?"

Transcript for Episode 538

We will finish the podcast and have our seminar tomorrow.

Handouts:
Socratic Seminar Prep Sheet

Homework:

Use your notes and the transcript (above) to complete the Socratic seminar prep sheet.

Revisions:
Salt Water Tones analysis - due Wednesday, 11/26