Webquest 1                                Socrates

 

    

 

INTRODUCTION    TASK    PROCEDURES    EVALUATION

CONCLUSION

 

INTRODUCTION   

 

    Socrates was a very important philosopher in our history. He was born in Athens in ancient Greece. He got in trouble with the law because he had different ideas than the majority of the people in his time.

    You are a member of the tribunal who must judge Socrates. You must analyze carefully the arguments that Socrates gives you to convince you of his innocence.

 

TASK

     Task 1. At the end of this webquest you must have a powerpoint with images and the principal arguments that Socrates gave to the tribunal for his defense. This powerpoint must have a minimum of 10 slides.

    Task 2.  You must also write a little text where you explain your considerations about his innocence or guilt.

    Task 3. You might be selected to do an oral exposition of your research.

 

PROCEDURES

   A.-  You must look for the principle of the Socrate΄s philosophy:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates 

        http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Socrates-Philosopher.htm 

    B.- The judge of  Socrates:

        http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html

        http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html

 

EVALUATION

 

ASSESSMENT
AREAS

GOD
****

Philosopher
***

CITIZEN
**

Unaware-Ignorant
*

CONTENT:
Research

Find at least 10 pieces of information.

Find at least 8 pieces of information.

Find at least 6 pieces of information.

Find at least 4 or less pieces of information.

Summary content: Putting it all together

• All information accurate.
 

• All information relevant to the task.
 

• All information historically accurate.
 

• All information stated in own words.
 

• All information is connected and flows well.

• Most information accurate.
 

• Most information relevant to the task.
 

• Most information historically accurate.
 

• Most information stated in own words.
 

• Most information is connected and flows well.

• Some information accurate.
 

• Some information relevant to the task.
 

• Some information historically accurate.
 

• Some information stated in own words.
 

• Some information is connected and flows well

• Not enough accurate information.
 

• Not enough information is relevant to the task.
 

• Not enough information is historically accurate.
 

• Not enough information is stated in own words.
 

• Not enough information is connected and flows well.

       Oral    presentation

• All creative and original.
 

• Entertaining throughout.
 

• No errors - all polished and rehearsed.
 

• Excellent use of voice, eye contact, body language and space.

• Mostly creative and original.
 

• Mostly entertaining throughout.
 

• Mostly polished and rehearsed.
 

• Mostly excellent use of voice, eye contact, body language and space.

• Sometimes creative and original.
 

• Sometimes entertaining throughout.
 

• Sometimes polished and rehearsed.
 

• Sometimes there is excellent use of voice, eye contact, body language and space.

• Not enough creativity and originality.
 

• Not entertaining enough.
 

• Not polished and rehearsed to a satisfactory level.
 

• Not enough excellent use of voice, eye contact, body language and space.


 

CONCLUSION

   Congratulations on successfully finishing your research. I hope you know more about the philosophy and life of this important Greek. Also, you can now understand the difficulties you can find if you have different ideas in a society and you want to defend them in spite of being considered a stranger or dangerous person by the majority of people. But in Socrate΄s case, he was not a stranger, he was extraordinary.