Minorities Socratic Seminar Essential Question Did the change come from a shift in power or from the minority groups forcing their way into power Top down or bottom up Objective To understand the minority experience ID: 579912
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Wednesday 11/22
Minorities Socratic SeminarSlide2
Essential Question
Did the change come from a shift in power or from the minority groups forcing their way into power?
Top down or bottom up?Slide3
Objective
To understand the minority experience
To determine the role or impact of minority groups on American culture from the Civil War to WWI
Minority groups:
Women
Black Americans
Immigrants
Muckrakers
Industrialists (not a minority, but group that impacted minorities greatly) Slide4
Task
Use prior knowledge, literature, film, and historical information to discuss the role of minority groups in America
Prep work
Creating seminar questions
Fully answering questions
Support with evidence, quotes, data, etc.
Due before start of Socratic Seminar (stamp before) Slide5
Expectations
Complete prep work
Whole group participation
No individual dominating discussion
Include all members of the group
Be specific with evidence
Participate in an online discussion Slide6
Evaluation
Score 1-10 based on categories:
Content
Analysis
Discussion
Rubric is on Woldy’s website (under today’s blog post and Forms and Docs)Slide7
Groups
Half in the inner circle, half outside
Outsiders: you will be participating in an online discussion on turnitin.com
There is a reflection portion after the seminar, that I will give you 10 minutes to work on today
Due date: Wednesday 11/22 (must be hard copy please)Slide8
Seminar Prep Questions
What role has media played in progressing and encouraging minority groups in our history?
What is the single greatest impact a minority or minority group has brought to the United States?
How and why did industrialists help the minority groups
? How did the minorities benefit or suffer from the growth of industry?
To what extent does the government have a responsibility to protect the rights of minorities? Do they even have a responsibility to protect minorities? Explain.
To
what extent have minorities achieved rights in America?
What minority group was most successful in achieving their goals or purpose? Explain.Slide9
Online Discussion Questions
Which minority group do you think had the biggest impact on American culture, and why?
How did
The Yellow Wallpaper
and
The Story of an Hour
capture the struggle of women at the turn of the century?
How did the Harlem Renaissance empower African Americans?
What was the highest potential for an immigrant? What would you see as the greatest risk of immigrating? Was immigrating worth it? Explain.
Do you think the groups should have banded together to fight the oppression, or was it better to work as individual groups? Explain. Slide10
Reflection
What
is the U.S. saying with its actions and policies towards minorities?
Use evidence, arguments, statistics from the seminar and your prep work
Self-Evaluation: use the Socratic seminar rubric to score your content and analysis
Why did you score yourself that way? What were your strengths? Weaknesses?
To what extent do you think you demonstrated your understanding of turn of the century minorities and their role in shaping America?
For our next seminar, how are you going to improve your content and analysis performance?
Reflection must be one page typedSlide11
Questions
How have these groups shaped America between the Civil War and WWI?
Who had the biggest impact and why?
To what degree did they achieve their goals? (Need evidence)
Do they have a similar/different role in America, today? Explain.
Are white men the ‘bad guys’? Explain.
How did the minorities benefit or suffer from the growth of industry?
Is localized change enough? “In my community…”
What lessons can current America learn from turn of the century America?Slide12
Socratic Seminar
We will be having a Socratic Seminar on November 18
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as your assessment for the Minorities unit
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You will be creating the potential questions.
Go to google form link on my website (today’s blog post) and list at least two potential Socratic seminar discussion questions (put your name too)
Will be earning a 10 point participation score
Due by Monday, November 7
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