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I tried using this plan with my advanced kids yesterday. Because I’d left their notebooks in the van, and the van got stuck in heavy snow, they didn’t get to write. Instead, we talked through all the questions as they related to a short story by Chekhov that we had just read, and it turned out that there was a lot to discuss! I didn’t realize that a story could have so many different interpretations, or that kids could feel so strongly about it. It gave me a very nice structure for a “literary” discussion. I did add a couple of questions:
What happened before the story started?
What is happening in the story?
Then I changed out the “main problem” question for “What are the complications?”
I realized afterward that the “what happened before” question was really just harkening back to what Blaine has taught us to do, but when we’re discussing a fixed story, there has to be some evidence. These TPRS-trained kids went to town on this discussion. I sat back in amazement. After we were done with the whole-class summary, I explained that I didn’t have their notebooks, so they were instead going to tell each other in pairs all the answers from their point of view. They were very serious about doing so; most pairs were scanning their texts for proof for their answers and opinions. It’s usually hard for me to get kids to go back and re-read a short story, and this galvanized them to do so on their own.
Thanks very much, Robert!