Socratic Circle Discusssion on Mate Selection

SOCRATIC CIRCLE DISCUSSION TOPIC: Mate Selection (for males vs. females) in Austen’s 1813 world and today.

Socratic Circle Discussion: student-led discussion without the aid of the teacher; students listen closely to others’ comment, think critically for themselves, and articulate their own views. Learn to work cooperatively and to question intelligently and civilly. This is not a debate. We will have two concentric circles, one inside the other, with the inner one speaking first, then we will switch. Recorders sit in the outer circle and observe the group dynamics and also jot down best points.

1.       First, take a few minutes to jot down questions that you will pose to the group. More prep, better discussion.

2.       Apply your new insights

3.       A funny self help book: The Prospective Spouse Checklist: Evaluating Your Potential Partner by Fox and Fox  http://theprospectivespousechecklist.com/

4.       What are some of the assumptions this self-help book makes? What are the implications for marriage in our culture today?

5.       Connect the checklist with Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. What things are the same? What are the differences?

6.       Generate more questions about how mates are selected then and now.

7.       Generate questions about mate selection for women vs. men.

More tips for keeping the discussion going:

·         Be a good listener. Respond to the previous point before changing subjects.

·         Deal with awkward silences.

·         Look at each other, not the teacher.

·         Keep the conversation going. Ask follow up questions.

·         Refer to specific incidents and characters in Austen to help conversation. Even read a quote from your iPad to get the group talking about it.

Please stay respectful throughout the discussion. Some of the issues are sensitive, so choose your words well but lean into the discomfort, don’t avoid it.

Recorder’s name

Record who speaks and whether (in your judgment) they were responding to a previous point or initiating their own points. Jot notes about best points made.

Topic: Mate Selection then and now, in 1813 and 2012

Participants                                        Keep track of who speaks, initiates, responds. Note best ideas.

Observation about the group dynamics of this student-led discussion:

How did this discussion differ from a teacher-facilitated discussion?

Free Reading

Read Hunger Games

Read Clockwork Orange

Make Reading a Habit 
Choose one free reading book to read on the iPad:
Ender's Game
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
On the Road
Catch 22
Clockwork Orange
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Hunger Games


Read Girl with Dragon Tattoo

Read P&P and Zombies



Read Ender's Game

also choose some blogs to start reading this year and next in college. 

Read On the Road

Finishing Austen

On the iPad, practice looking up definitions
annotate the eBook
prep for Monday test
What are the best passages for investigating Power?
Gender?
Class?
Choice of Mates?
Choose a free reading book for the next few months
Use Google Earth to see Hertfordshire
Hamlet on the KNO or ibooks?

P&P pages to study

REVIEW (and know) THESE PASSAGES in Pride and Prejudice:

Ch1 Mr and Mrs Bennet

1  opening sentence: what words makes it satirical?

2-3 Explain show vs. tell

Ch2 Bennet surprises women by having visited Bingley

Ch3 The Ball, Darcy’s remark about Liz

7 What is the key (“tolerable”) insult and the gossip that follows?

Ch 4 sisters and friends as foils

9 Jane vs. Liz: How does Austen effectively use foils?

10 Darcy vs. Bingley: How does Austen use foils? Which is most effective?

Ch5 p11 Lady Lucas was “not too clever.” Whose does the narrator’s tone match?

Ch6 p13-14  Is Charlotte’s advice sound?

15 “being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.” Liz’s motive?

16 “Every savage” How does Darcy deliver insults? Does Sir Lucas understand?

17-18, 40  Omniscient narrator inside Darcy’s head. “Charming mother-in-law.”

Ch7 p19 Mr. Bennet’s tone “only point on which we do not agree.”

20-21 “Can I have the carriage?” “No, it seems likely to rain.”

Ch8 p23 ff Gossip: “wild” “decorum” “attorney”

Ch9 Bennets embarrass Liz

28-29 Hobby: “studier of character”

30 Are you ever embarrassed by your mom?

Ch10 Caroline watches Darcy write a letter

32-35 drawing room repartee: Liz vs. Darcy

Ch11 p37 Caroline Bingley sycophant

39 Darcy’s temper

Ch12 Liz and Jane leave Netherfield

Ch13 collin’s letter

42-43 Analyze the style of Collins’ letter

Ch14 p46;  Collins’ talent for flattery;

Ch15 p48 collins switches from Jane to Liz

49ff Wickham’s appearance

Ch16 Wickham poisons Liz

53-57 Liz gossiping with Wickham about Darcy

Ch17 prepare for Netherfield ball

Ch18 the ball

62-63 Liz dancing with Darcy, insults Darcy while dancing.

67 Collins patronizes Liz, refuses her advice about approaching Darcy

69, 70-1 Embarrassed by her family! Mrs. Bennet exposes herself and embarrasses her daughter.

Ch19 collins’ proposal

72-75 Collins’ proposal: funny or scary?

            COLLINS’ PROPOSAL

Q: How are women shown as disempowered in these scenes?  How is the scene both comic and telling? How does Liz feel?

72ff Collins proposes, Liz refuses, but is not believed

76-7 Mom’s reaction

77 Mr. Bennet referees the marriage proposal

79 Collins withdraws his offer

82 Liz and Jane decoding Caroline’s letter differently

Ch22 p87 Charlotte 90 Mr. Bennet “reassures” Mrs. Bennet about the entail

94-5 Mr Bennet is too sarcastic with Liz (foreshadows?)

            CHARLOTTE’S MARRIAGE

85 Charlotte’s engagment

87 Liz confronts Charlotte about marrying Collins

Ch23 p91 collins

p93 Discussing it with Jane

ch24 p94 Bingley in London

100  Charlotte’s wedding

            WICKHAM AND MISS KING

Ch 25/26 Gardiner 98-9 Mrs. Gardiner warns Liz about Wickham

Ch 27 Liz to London p103, 105 Liz’s reactions to Miss King and Wickham

Ch28 Liz to ROSINGS with Darcy and Charlotte

109 Collins

Ch29/30 Rosings 113 Lady Catherine: Liz talks back

Ch31 darcy at Rosings119 Darcy and Liz sparring

Ch32 Darcy visits Liz alone

Ch33 chance meeting 125-6 Col. Fitzwilliam: second sons can’t marry poor

Ch34   DARCY’S PROPOSAL and the AFTERMATH

129-31 Darcy’s self-centered proposal: “inferiority” “degradation”

Ch35 134 Darcy’s letter of explanation: ‘three young sisters, occasionally even your father’

  Jane’s “indifference”;  Wickham eloped with Georgiana (15) for her fortune

Ch36 p139 Liz re-reading (and re-evaluating) Darcy’s letter

141 Till this moment I never knew myself

   Liz’s epiphany: she sees her own blind spot: ‘prided myself on discernment’

Ch37 p144 Bad Dad ‘would never exert himself to restrain the giddiness of the daughters’

Ch38 leaving rosings 148 uglier hats --Lydia

Ch39 p148 back home

Ch 40 Liz and Jane 152 Liz’s confession ‘I meant to be uncommonly clever’ taking a dislike to Darcy

            LYDIA TO BRIGHTON?

Ch41 p155 Liz and Mom, lamentations resounding (sounds, hyperbole, satire on the regiment leaving Meryton

156 Dad’s big mistake: he says no to Liz (sarcastically), yes to Lydia ‘expose herself’

Ch42 bad dad 159-60 Liz sees her parents’ marriage problems: Bad Dad

            AT PEMBERLEY

Ch43 Pemberley 163 Pemberley: Mrs Reynolds praises Darcy

168 Darcy appears! How embarrassing!

Ch44 p174 Georgiana Darcy

Ch45 p178 Caroline

180-1 Caroline Bingley gossips about Liz: ‘great loss for your family’; ‘self-sufficiency which is intolerable’

            BENNET FAMILY CRISIS ABOUT LYDIA

Ch 46 p182 CRISIS 182 Jane’s letter is a crisis; ‘my father bears it better’; W. never intended to marry Lydia;

185 How Darcy reacts to Liz’s crisis: ‘Good God, what is the matter!’

CH47 P188 Gardiners (skim) 189 Bad Dad

192 Wedding Clothes

Ch56 p235 Lady Catherine de Bourgh arrives

Ch57 p241 letter to Mr Bennet

Ch58 p245 and 246 Another proposal (guess who!)

Ch59 explaining to family 251 Liz tells a disbelieving Jane

Ch60 p254-5 Liz tells a disbelieving Dad then Mom

Ch61 p258 happily ever

Writing Process

Write a letter on the back:
Dear Dr Forman,
paragraph about your writing process
short paragraph about your best idea or ideas
sincerely,

Next: pass your essay to the right and proofread
(let the author make neat, ink corrections)

Tell the class about writing your essay.

Done.
Now read Jane Austen

Writing the Austen Essay

Due Oct. 21 by midnight:
   3-5 page college level essay
Carefully proofread
Add a works cited page
Use headers
Look at the rubrics
Use MLA format for parenthetical citations
Look at your previous returned essay to avoid making the same errors over again
Create your own interesting question about class, gender, marriage, and social power
Narrow your topic
Pick one or two characters to illustrate your thesis
Pick a scene to investigate your claim

Blogs due (which will help you meet the essay deadline)
by Mon Oct 15 blog your first introductory paragraph and thesis statement
by Tue or Wed Oct 16 or 17 blog you first body paragraph
by Thu Oct 18 blog your conclusion
by Sun. Oct. 21 before midnight upload your essay to Turnitin.com
Monday Oct. 22 bring a paper copy of your essay and load it into dropbox


Reading greatly reduced while you write
by Mon Oct 15 p.196 ch48 (only 8 pages)
by Tue Oct 16 p.201 ch49 (only 7 pages)
by Wed. Oct 17 p.206 ch50 (only 5 pages)
No reading due for Mon. Oct. 22 (so you can write your essay)
by Tue. Oct. 23 p.226 ch54 (20 pages)

How to use Turnitin.com
Go to www.turnitin.com
 2012-2013 Senior English
For students to enroll themselves in this class, they will need both the enrollment password you have chosen and the unique class ID generated by Turnitin:

• 5681547
• dare

Essay title: ____________________________________

√  (check mark) “Done well.” or “Improving.” O (circle the item) “Need to keep working on this.”

integrate quotes	MLA headers	thesis	use 2-part title
interpret quotes	punctuate MLA	overgeneral thesis	say more in title
comma splice	comma inside quote	unclear thesis	italicize novel titles
fused sentence	period inside quote	t.s. overgeneral	concluding sent of ¶
MLA headers	period after parens.	t.s. with example	direct opening sent.
Fragment	wordy sentences	t.s. without claim	topic sentences
Slang	confusing sent.	t.s. disconnect thesis	proofread
colloquial words	spell-check	cueing the reader	late papers
overly informal	subj-verb agreement	passive voice	other
pronoun agreement	pronoun referent	split infinitive	other

              Suggested areas to work on:

 title                    opening line                introduction       thesis sentence

 organization      clarity of syntax          more precise word choices

 development of main idea    clarification, explanation of main idea

 narrower main idea   topic sentences    closing sentences  conclusion

Rate thesis claim sentence

<-- Ι----------------------------------------------Ι---------------------------------Ι---->

vague, unclear                         fairly clear, points to topic                  well-written, specific 

A or A-	B+ or B	C, C+, or B-
-outstanding -clear and consistent mastery -a few minor errors	-effective; demonstrates reasonably consistent mastery -occasional errors or lapses in quality	-competent -demonstrates adequate mastery -lapses in quality
-effectively, insightfully develops          a point of view on the issue -demonstrates outstanding critical   thinking -uses clearly appropriate   examples, reasons, quotes, &   reasons	-effectively develops a point of   view on the issue -demonstrates strong critical   thinking -uses appropriate examples,   reasons quotes, & evidence to   support its position	-develops a point of view on the   issue -demonstrates competent critical   thinking -uses adequate examples,  reasons,   quotes, & evidence to support its   position
-well organized -clearly focused -demonstrates clear coherence -smooth progression of ideas	-well organized and focused -demonstrates coherence and   progression of ideas	-generally organized and focused -demonstrates some coherence   and progression of ideas
-exhibits skillful use of language -uses varied, accurate, apt   Vocabulary	-exhibits facility in the use of   language -uses appropriate vocabulary	-exhibits adequate but inconsis-   tent facility in the use of languag -uses generally appropriate vocab
-demonstrates meaningful variety    in sentence structure	-demonstrates variety in sentence   structure	-demonstrates some variety in   sentence structure
-free of most errors in grammar,   usage, & mechanics	-generally free of most errors in   grammar, usage, & mechanics	-has some errors in grammar,   usage, & mechanics

                                                                                                                   Forman #

                                               (header: insert, header, tab twice, last name, space, insert page #)

                                                                                                                   WRONG:   Forman, p.1

Name

Teacher

Date

Class

Pin the Tail: Entailment in Pride and Prejudice

(title should be clever, should fit only your essay, and give away your main idea in very few words)

WRONG: Austen essay

                Pride and Prejudice begins with satire: “It is a truth universally acknowledged” (Austen 1).

(MLA parenthetical citation no “p” no period, page number, period after parentheses.)

Wrong:  “universally acknowledged. (Austen, p. 1)”

THESIS: Austen satirizes marrying up by contrasting Mrs Bennet’s and Elizabeth’s views of a proper marriage partner.

(thesis should be specific, controversial

Comma splice:  I went to the store, I bought candy.

Plan to WRITE

Plans to Write:

1.    CLASS, SOCIAL POWER, GENDER, MARRIAGE.

 construct your own views, and apply them to the novel and to the current day. How is social power configured at Buckley? In Beverly Hills? In Southern California? In 1812 England? How do class and gender affect social power? Affect marriage? Does DW Harding apply here?

2.    2 or 3 questions you want to answer.

3.    one or two characters you will explore

4.    two or more passages you will explore and annotate

5.    Annotate your KNO text with your questions in mind

1.            in class every day and at home.

2.            Choose a different color

3.            show MyJournal

BLOGS DUE:

Ques: by 10/10 wed blog your questions, characters

Outline: by 10/11 thu blog your outline, paragraph by paragraph, and your title

Intro by 10/15 mon blog your intro paragraph 

Parag by 10/17 wed blog your first body paragraph

Conclu by 10/18 thu blog your conclusion and works cited page

DONE by 10/21 sunday turnitin.com deadline for essay

READING

Modified reading schedule

read to  p. 178 Ch.45 by Wed. Oct 10  (only 6 pages so you can catch up)

read to  p.182 Ch.46 by Thu. Oct 11  (only 4 pages so you can compose)

read to p.196 Ch.48 by Mon Oct 15 (only 8 pages so you can compose)

read to p.201 Ch.49 by Tue Oct 16  (only 7 pages so you can compose)

read to p.206 Ch.50  by Wed. Oct.17 (only 5pages so you can write)

No reading due for Mon. Oct. 22 because essay is due Oct. 21

read to p.226 Ch.54 by Tue. Oct. 23  (20 pages)

read to p.241 Ch.57 by Wed. Oct. 24 (15 pages)

read to p. 260 Ch.61 (finished!) by Thurs. Oct 25 (19 pages)

Modified Austen Reading Schedule

To allow you to write the essay, due Oct. 21, I've modified the reading schedule.

Modified reading schedule

read to  p. 178 Ch.45 by Wed. Oct 10  (only 6 pages so you can catch up)

read to  p.182 Ch.46 by Thu. Oct 11  (only 4 pages so you can compose)

read to p.196 Ch.48 by Mon Oct 15 (only 8 pages so you can compose)

read to p.201 Ch.49 by Tue Oct 16  (only 7 pages so you can compose)

read to p.206 Ch.50  by Wed. Oct.17 (only 5pages so you can write)

No reading due for Mon. Oct. 22 because essay is due Oct. 21

read to p.226 Ch.54 by Tue. Oct. 23  (20 pages)

read to p.241 Ch.57 by Wed. Oct. 24 (15 pages)

read to p. 260 Ch.61 (finished!) by Thurs. Oct 25 (19 pages)