Socratic Circle Reflection

Socratic Circle Reflection

Their was at least 3, not really vocabulary words but phrases I did not understand before the Socratic circle and that I think I know what the meaning is now. The first one is the word 'docket' in the second line of the text. Before the circle I had no idea what it meant, so I looked it up in a dictionary and it said it was noun and that it is a calendar of the cases awaiting the action a court. That made a lot of sense once I got the definition. The whole line reads 'No appeal on the docket today, just my own sin.' He doesn't want to go to court but he has to because he did something bad and has to face the repercussions. What ever he did it was his own fault.

The second phrase is 'Demons cluttering around my face,' I didn't really understand what it meant, I looked up demons in the dictionary and it is a noun too and means a persistently tormenting person, force, or passion. I think that the demons he's talking about are not real but metaphors. I think it is his sin like what he is talking about in the second line. I think it means that all his sins are always going to be their and he never can make it right. He has done so much bad in his life; he thinks that it is impossible to change his life.

The last phrase is 'I hear a thunder in the distance; see a vision of a cross.' I really didn't understand 'a thunder in the distance' I looked up thunder in the dictionary and it is too a noun and it means the crashing or booming sound produced by rapidly expanding air along the path of the electrical discharge of lightning. I don't really get the meaning 'to hear thunder but the cross is Jesus' cross. I think that when Jesus was on the cross the weather was horrible. I think that the thunder was a symbolism of Jesus being on the cross.

The first technique was we asked a lot of unique questions. That was very different from the first one we did when no one asked any questions. Their was questions on almost every sentence. Their were questions like "What you think this means?" "I thought this was..." "Is this have something to do with this?" These were really good questions to get really into the passage.

The second technique was finding really good metaphors. Their were many in this passage and in both inner circles we found a lot of metaphors. Examples are "A lion roar in the darkness only; he holds the key." In the inner circle we made the lion to be a metaphor of God. We also figured out that the 'Demons cluttering around my face' means all the sin and bad stuff he (the author) did in his life is hanging in his face tempting him to do it again. The final strategy was either going in order line by line or just jump around. It works really well when you go down the passage because you don't miss anything important. You get all the information in the passage and get everything out of the text. Instead of skipping around the passage and not getting the full meaning, you need to go line by line to get the full meaning.

I didn't do as much of preparation as I wanted too. All I did was I red through the passage and found stuff that I thought people might like to discuss. I think I spoke all of what I thought of the passage. I put in my opinion and I asked some questions. I think I was one of the people that talked the most in my group. We showed a lot of teamwork because in the first group they interrupted each other a lot and didn't really have a lot of teamwork, so we knew what we needed to do to make our circle work. I just told them they interrupted each other a lot and they should try and fix it. I also told them, they did a good job deciphering the text but jumped around a lot and missed some important things.

We were very prepared and knew what we didn't get and what would be