Socratic Seminar

Today in class we had our first Socratic Seminar about our new book, Montana 1948. Many interesting points were made in this discussion. For example, everyone in the seminar thought that the book started out slow, but picked up when Marie died and we found out that Uncle Frank is a rapist. They also thought that the long descriptions of the characters help the readers picture what is going on in the story. One of the questions asked that was discussed a lot was whether or not Wesley should turn in his brother Frank for his crimes. Most people thought that it is the right thing for Wes to do, but that it is very hard to turn in a family member and that it is something that you would have to think through first very carefully. Also, the grandfather might know something about Frank, and Wesley doesn't want to go against his father and his brother, who are very close. David is growing up very quickly because he is being exposed to very serious things at such a young age. One prediction that was made at the end of the discussion was that David is going to shoot and kill Uncle Frank.