The Socratic seminar impacted my thinking on the main influences that shaped the Elizabethan era. We discussed that reputation, racism, patriarchy, and jealousy were all very popular during this era. There were many things said that made me think about something I hadn't thought of before. When one of my peers stated that the cause of Othello becoming insecure towards Desdemona was probably because of his race. This made me realize how much racism impacted the Elizabethan era.
The statement from one of my peers that I agree with the most is that woman were treated unfairly as if they were in a lower status than men. One statement form my peer that I did not agree with is that Iago's plan was successful. I disagree with this because although Iago got revenge on Cassio and Othello, eventually everyone figured out what his plan and he no longer was able to take the military rank that Cassio had. Many different topics and questions were covered during the seminar. Therefore there is nothing that needs to be said that hasn't already been discussed.
During the seminar I believe having a dicussion leader really helped the disscussion flow. The disscussion leader made sure we set goals for us to accomplish and that everyone had the oppurtunity to speak. Also, the discussion leader made sure we weren't on one topic for to long and connected the text to our disscussions. Half time also worked very well for the seminar, during half time we were able to get advice from our peers and also give advice to our peers. Also during half time I was able to have some time to think about maybe what I needed to change and do during the next portion of the seminar.
Our oppurtunities for improvement were that more direct quotes were used. There wasn't many direct quotes , just analysis. Also many of the questions that were being asked were off topic and not related to the theme of Elizabethan era. If our questions were more on topic that could've resulted in everyone getting higher grades. Also that could've resulted in everyone understanding the topic more.
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