Film Studies Daily Log

Wednesday, September 14

We held a "Socratic Seminar" using as our text Hamlet's first soliloquy, "O, that this too, too sold flesh would melt," with students seated in two concentric circles. Students in the inner circle -- using the notes they had added to their copies of the soliloquy == discussed the speech while the outer circle observed and filled out feedback forms, after which the outer circle commented orally on how the inner circle had done. Then the students in the two circles swapped places, and the procedure was repeated.

Students turned in their annotated texts along with their feedback forms.