Socratic Seminar

Once in a while our teacher makes us do Socratic Seminars. This is when some of the people in the class come up to the front and discuss about the book. Today we had one of these seminars and it was pretty good. Some of the questions are like "do you like the book so far?". People liked the book, a lot of the females in our class liked Romeo and Juliet better. Also most of the women didn't like the book because of the hard language.
We talked about how Lady Macbeth and Britney were bad role models for women. I think Lady Macbeth is pretty good. She does anything to get power and acts just like a guy in that sense. She acts like what the feminists fight for; which is very surprising considering Lady Macbeth is a character from a time where women did not have much rights. On the other hand we have Britney Spears. I don’t think anyone considers her a role model. All she does is act very dumb and “whores” attention. Britney should not be considered a role model at all. Besides this we also discussed some good female role models. I think we decided that Oprah was a decent role model. Even though Oprah doesn’t really probably put her heart into charity, she does a lot of charity anyway.
The future is another hot topic. If Macbeth didn’t know his future wouldn’t have killed King Duncan. This makes you think “what if I knew my future?”. If you knew your future you probably would think of it a lot. This would make you worried about your future all the time. Brent made a very good example when he talked about if he knew he was going to be a doctor why care about English. Here is a really good site that explains this.This would probably change is future and he probably wouldn’t become an eye doctor. Personally I wouldn’t want to know my future because I think I’d be self conscious about it everyday. The stress would kill me.