The Republic Lesson Plan

Project: The Socratic Method and Plato's Dialogues

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

To provide students with more key concepts.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

The teacher should start by having students watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyt-62JsZjw&app=desktop

Then, he/she should ask students to describe some of the things that they've just heard about. What is Socrates's method of argumentation, and...