Tqe Discussion Plan

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TQE Discussion Plan

Ask students before they start working on this what zoning is. They should have the idea in
their head before writing ideas about the article.

Start off class by telling students to spend 5 minutes thinking about the article they were
assigned to read yesterday. (Half the room read one, and the other half read the other)

During this time, they will be writing down different thoughts, questions, and
“epiphanies” (an AH-HA moment when they feel like they really understand
something and have more to say about it).

While students spend those 5 minutes writing these ideas down, the teacher will be looking
through the Apple classroom to make sure students are on task but also to look at their ideas
before they share them with each other.

● Could you say more about this?


● What about the reading made you think that?
● What would you say to someone who thinks differently?
● So this leads you to what conclusions?

Allow students to talk in small groups now with each other. Pair them up randomly with people
sitting next to them. They will spend the next 10 minutes talking about what they wrote down in
their Word Document/Google Document.

Once this has concluded, begin asking students planned questions.

1. Why do cities zone?

IF YOU THINK THIS…


2. Why is zoning good? (Ask students for different examples)

3. Why is zoning bad?


a. What if there is a big house with a big yard behind you and they
decided they were going to put a prison right behind your house
now?
b. How would that impact your life? Is it fair?
4. Now, based on the articles you read, do you think it was planned for
these families to be in those zones?

5. What should we do then?


a. Does the good outweigh the bad? Is there a way to fix it?

Should we just eliminate zoning overall?

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