Question

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Socratic Seminar Questions

Instructions: For each question below, write your CLAIM-BASED answers with evidence from the novel OR from real life experiences. (In other words, make a CLAIM and then defend that claim with evidence and further commentary that explains why you feel the way that you do. Think: logos, ethos, pathos!)

NOTE: Be sure to include ALL parts of the claim-based answer (mentioned above) to receive full credit.

1. Are rules necessary?
2. How much does WHERE YOU LIVE have an impact on WHO YOU ARE?
3. Think about your closest friends or your family members. Is there a limit to what you
would do for them?
4. Do you think YOUR generation is more or less violent than previous ones?
5. Why is it difficult to break cycles of violence?
6. Is violence ever justifiable?
7. Do you think crying is a weakness OR an asset?
8. When would snitching be justified? Or is it?
9. What are the limitations and possibilities of revenge?
10. Does birth order dictate your role in the family (if coming from a large family)?

Answer 1

Answer:
1. The rules aren't necessary because it imposes a sense of toxic masculinity onto the block.
2. Depending on where you are at it would matter because if you live to rep your block you'll rep it; If you don't you don't. y'know?
3. This one is up to you because I don't know you you
4. I'd say less violent and more toxic online because people like to dox others for no reason online. People of our generation like to make people out to be the bad guy which sometimes isn't true.
5. If cycles of violence are something you are used to then it's hard to change your ways.
6. Yes when certain things like hurting someone who rap3d you, someone who used to physically assault you when you were younger, or someone who has murdered people you loved.
7. Crying is an asset because keeping it pent up inside won't help anything matter-of-fact it is way worse than you think.
8. Snitching is justified when someone has committed a serious crime, not some petty stuff like stealing because if it's food, you don't know what they going through.
9. Limitations most of the time would be murder but in some situations, it's justified.
Revenge is ok when murder, rap3, and any other serious crime has been done to you or someone you love.
10. No because sometimes you are stronger than your older siblings and sometimes you are weaker than your younger siblings.