Lindsay has numerous examples of Socratic Seminar Preparatory Assignments that are text specific. She will upload what she has to the other wikispaces based on specific texts (or just ask her)

Resources
Touchstones is a series of books with short, idea rich texts that are perfect for Seminars (and there is such a wide variety you can usually find one that will supplement a novel or unit). They are all in the library; just ask Suz.


These are informational for kids and teachers:



And here are resources for assessing seminars:



List of themes/ideas:

Example of Seminar Prep using students' data as a text: