Discussions 11/2/17

Today in class we went over the short discussion that took place in class yesterday.  The chart that will be used to help us to discuss shows us taking turns, the variety of response, and sharing space.  The sheet basically shows us how our discussion will go and who builds on the topic effectively.  It has negative and positive feedback to help us grow and learn how to have a productive conversation.

We then discussed the ultimate goal for what we will be doing throughout the book.  We will be reading and answering questions provided.  We will read a chapter at a time and before each class will have to find evidence that will be useful for the question your groups have for the discussion.  Each chapter we read will be set up like this for every chapter we read has a discussion that goes along with it. 

For our pre-discussion obligations are quotes to provide to the conversation.  During the discussion notes should be taken about what we're learning and what everyone is saying.  And after each discussion we will have to reflect on our discussion, what we learned about the book along with how everyone contributed to the discussion.

With all of this our first discussion will be tomorrow which means chapter one reading is homework for tonight.  Meaning important passages found in the reading should be in your chart found in classroom under the Gatsby Harkness discussion tab.

Our groups were then assigned our groups and we had to persuade Mr. Rivers which question we wanted to answer.  Who ever is the most persuasive will receive the question that they want.