A few weeks ago, I participated in a formative Socratic Seminar about The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. In the Socratic Seminar, I participated in a conversation regarding the usage of literary techniques within the novel by Sherman Alexie and discussed why the author has decided to employ these techniques.
In the Socratic Seminar, I believed I did well working collaboratively with group members and contributing my thoughts and opinions regarding the usage of literary techniques. I did well on building on the group’s thoughts and, at the same time, elaborated and expressed my own ideas in regards to the techniques.
I think I could work on my usage of technical vocabulary. Although my group has analyzed the author’s choices, we did not reference specific vocabulary on literary techniques. In addition, I can improve more on my analysis of the choices of the author, voicing my own thoughts and asking others why the author decided to use certain literary techniques at certain parts of the novel.
For the next Socratic Seminar, I plan to reference more technical vocabulary regarding literary techniques to improve my contributions to the group. In addition, another goal of mine for the next Socratic Seminar is to voice more of my analysis of techniques since I could have analyzed the usage of the techniques more.
One of the steps I will take to achieve these goals is to take more notes regarding where techniques are used and study the various technique terminology more to understand what techniques my group members may be referencing. I will also analyze more of the quotations that I have put out. This way, I can contribute more to the group discussion and help the group understand the use of techniques in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian more thoroughly.