Discussion Director
Your job as the Discussion Director is to come up with 5 thinking questions using pages 50-69. You really want to make the class think about what you all have just read. You are trying to make sure everyone in the class understands or comprehends the reading. It is very important that you ask the class fat, juicy, thinking questions and not easy, right there, in the book questions.
Your teacher really wants you to help the students in your class to go back to the book to find their answers if they don’t know them. So, to help this run very smoothly, you need to write down the questions, your answers to your questions, and the page numbers where the students can reference the text to justify their responses to your questions.
When you are creating your 5 questions, make sure that you have one of each of the following types of questions.
1. Problem/Solution
What was ____________’s problem on p._________ or in Chapter_______? How did ________ solve his/her problem? How do you predict _________will solve his/her problem? How would you solve ________’s problem?
2. Effect/Cause or Cause/Effect
The effect tells what happened. The cause tells why it happened. For example: The girl ran into the door because she did not look where she was going. Effect: The girl ran into the door. Cause: She did not look where she was going.
When you are asking an effect/cause question, you can tell your group the effect and have them guess the cause.
3. Characterization (give words to describe characters and find evidence from the book that proves those are the traits)
4. Main Idea (the most important idea from this section)
5. Figurative Language
Simile (compares two unlike things using the words like or as: My hands are like ice. My hands are as cold as ice.)
Metaphor (compares two unlike objects: My hands are ice. )
Personification (gives human/person traits to non-human things.)