Tqe Discussion Plan
Tqe Discussion Plan
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.
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.