Socratic Seminar II

To Kill a MockingbirdChapters 20-31

Be present and on time. Be prepared with book(s), notes, study guides, etc. One person talks at a time. Pay strict attention to each person as he/she speaks.

You will not receive a point for repeating somebody else’s information. You will lose a point if you talk to your neighbor, doodle, make faces at classmates, etc.

You MUST participate!!! Failure to participate will result in failure of this assignment. Simple saying “I agree” will not earn you a point. You must explain and expand on all ideas. Use textual support.

The Rules

First we must elect a leader. The leader will call on each

person to answer questions. Questions will pop up on the scene. If you know the answer, raise your hand. The leader will

select you to answer the question. Once you have spoken others may follow up with

additional responses, to debate your answer, and questions related to the one asked.

At times, textual evidence will be asked for. Be ready to share why you believe certain information is true.

The goal is that every member of our class participates at least 4 times answering and asking questions.

How It Will Work

Who really killed Bob Ewell?

Why does Heck Tate insist that Bob

Ewell's death was self-inflicted?

In what way is this partly true?

Prove It… Give Textual Evidence to Support Your

Answer.

Do you have any follow up questions?

How do the events of the final chapters explain the first sentence in the whole

novel?

Prove It… Give Textual Evidence to Support Your

Answer.

Do you have any follow up questions?

How much of a surprise is it to find out

what Boo Radley is really like?

Has the story before this point prepared the reader for this discovery?

Do you have any follow up questions?

At the end of the novel, Atticus reads to Scout. Comment on his choice of story.

Does it have any connection with themes earlier in the novel and in its ending?

Prove It… Give Textual Evidence to Support Your

Answer.

Do you have any follow up questions?

As you read the story do you see things

from one viewpoint or does the viewpoint change?

Give Examples From the Text

Do you have any follow up questions?

How far does the author signal to you, as the reader, which views are “right”, and how far does she allow you freedom to

make your own judgments?

Give textual evidence to support your answer.

Do you have any follow up questions?

Say what you think the story means in a

literal sense and in terms of theme, character and setting. Look at details of

imagery, language, and symbolism.

Give textual evidence to support your answer.

Do you have any follow up questions?

What characters change the most in the

story and how?

Give textual evidence to support your answer.

Do you have any follow up questions?

Final Remarks?