Engage your students in meaningful discussions and let them take charge of their learning through weekly Socratic Seminars surrounding current events and issues that are relevant and impact our students' lives! Socratic Seminars are a structured discussion based on Socrates’ theory that by asking questions, individuals will come closer to truth. In this discussion, students lead the conversation and use questions to push their classmates’ understanding of topic or text. This resource includes: teacher instructions Student Socratic Seminar assignment sheet student tracker during Socratic Seminars for the teacher alternate assignments for students who are absent on the day of the discussion, and student samples of both assignments And of course, editable Google Docs of each file. This can be used for any subject area and in middle and high school. Works especially well in AP level classes: AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION, AP EUROPEAN HISTORY, AP U.S. HISTORY, AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION