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FRESHMAN YEAR 2010 - 2011

ESLR |1C Academic Achievers who:
Actively listen to the views of others and respond effectively and appropriately.
COURSE: English 9
 
ASSIGNMENT TITLE: Socratic Seminar
 
DATE OF PROJECT: 01/26/2011
 
 
Topic​

The topic addressed in this project was connected to the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger?” The topic discussed was in regards to the ending of the short story because its actual ending was one with no ultimate conclusion, but its ending was one that gave the audience two choices to pick from. Those two choices were about which door the youth (one of the characters)/princess’s lover had opened while completely under the influence of the princess who had raised her right hand to have him open the door on the right. The time given for this project had been fifteen minutes in class; fifteen minutes for the discussion to stay alive and provide life to many ideas that could be supported by the short story or even life experiences. The amount of time used to work on this project had been fifteen minutes as well because the project had been done in class within an inside circle of about twelve students in our period to be able to have the discussion commence and continue to the very end. In the end, I had to turn in a sheet of paper that I had to fill out when I was on the outside circle listening to the second inside circle group of about fifteen students, but I had not had to turn in anything when I was in the inside circle group creating the discussion about the short story’s ending.

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

Parameters

This assignment had allowed me to share a discussion with my classmates in which we could listen to each other’s perspectives about the short story’s ending while in an inside circle composed of about twelve students/classmates. There were two points of views: the youth had opened the door with the lady behind it and the youth had opened the door with the tiger behind it. My point of view had consisted of the youth having opened the door with the fair lady behind it because if the youth was able to live, then the princess and he could still probably be together because the youth wouldn’t have to spend all of his time with his new life and because he could also probably obtain a divorce for his marriage and recreate his relationship with the princess once more. The opposing point of view that I had encountered was that the youth had opened the door with the tiger behind it. The evidence that students had given as support for their point of view had been that since the princess was semi barbaric, she wouldn’t have a big problem with the gore seen and the guilt that she would receive for having been the cause of the youth’s death.

 

 

Explain how the project or presentation you selected demostrates your ability to communicate ideas/concepts/topics and articulate your viewpoint on that subject in a clear and effective way to your readers/audience.

 

This point of view is different compared to my own point of view because my opposing point of view has the youth getting killed in the end and then being forever the princess’s in the afterlife and nobody else’s. I had responded to the opposing side by having said that even though there is a fifty-fifty percent chance for either door to have been the opened one, the princess could have used gold and will power once again to obtain being with the youth if she wanted to. Furthermore, she could also use her father’s love for her to her advantage and have the youth still somehow (after a series of events) become her own husband and the person that she spends the rest of her life with. I consider my response to have been effective because it had made some of my classmates’ points of view change a little towards thinking that the princess had ended up signaling the youth to open the door with the lady behind it. My response could have been more effective and appropriate by having said that since the princess was well satisfied with her lover, she wouldn’t want to kill him and that even though she thought that the youth liked the fair lady behind one of the doors, it could just have been her imagination as the narrator had suggested.

 

 
ESLR #1C Reflection​

 

This project influenced my perspective into a less firm direction. My perspective had changed from becoming more firm and certain to becoming more uncertain and wavering in both directions. This had occurred because the short story had not displayed exactly what type of person the princess was on the inside, and also, because the support that my fellow classmates had been providing had made me waver in my decision. There are two types of persons that the princess could have been which are the insecure and jealous type or the confident and optimistic type. If the princess was the insecure and jealous type, then she would have been more likely to have led the youth to open the door with the tiger behind it, but if the princess was the confident and optimistic type, then she would have been more likely to have led the youth to door with the lady behind it because she would have had a backup plan to regain the youth as her own personal lover once more. Therefore, my perspective had been influenced by the Socratic Seminar as we had been discussing the ending of “The Lady, or the Tiger?” in an inside circle group.

 

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