For this class, we’ll break into small groups for RPG (role-playing game) conversation.\u00a0 Here are the roles that you can choose from:<\/p>\n
Discussion director<\/em>:\u00a0 develops a list of discussion questions and facilitates the group discussion, keeping everyone on topic and on track.<\/p>\n Reporter<\/em>: takes notes on the group’s responses on paper, edits what the group has written, then shares the group’s thinking with the whole class.<\/p>\n Encourager<\/em>:\u00a0 the encourager makes sure that all the members in the group are participating and invites reluctant members to contribute.<\/p>\n The Questioner<\/em>: drives discussion forward by posing open-ended questions<\/p>\n The Contrarian<\/em>: takes the opposite position<\/p>\n Mr. Alternative<\/em>: Have you considered another possibility, such as . . .<\/p>\n Step 1<\/strong>: Go to this link here<\/a> to sign up for your role.\u00a0 It’s first-come, first-served, so you probably want to do it now.<\/p>\n Step 2<\/strong>: Look at the prompts below, then do your process-writing with your role in mind.<\/p>\n “Fatso”<\/em><\/p>\n This is a story of\/This is a story about . . .<\/p>\n Does the main guy change during the course of the story?\u00a0 How so?\u00a0 What factors cause the change?<\/p>\n What’s the arc, or movement of this story?\u00a0 From what to what?<\/p>\n “I love you” appears in the second paragraph.\u00a0 The story ends with another claim of love.\u00a0 Do you believe him the first time?\u00a0 The second time?\u00a0 Support your answers with evidence from the text.<\/p>\n Fiction is “the lie that tells the truth.”\u00a0 That is, it can speak truth or illuminate human behavior even if it’s not “realistic.”\u00a0 Where’s the truth in this story?\u00a0 How does it illuminate real human behavior and relationships?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For this class, we’ll break into small groups for RPG (role-playing game) conversation.\u00a0 Here are the roles that you can choose from: Discussion director:\u00a0 develops a list of discussion questions and facilitates the group discussion, keeping everyone on topic and … Continue reading