The next step in the process is that the teacher asks, on Monday, for volunteers to be the star of the week for that week. As soon as that person is chosen, he/she comes up to sit in the special chair for the interview process. Anyone who has done the Special Chair activity can see that this is really almost exactly the same thing.
During class, the teacher goes through questions and circles. There are many variations possible and the work is very free form. It is best to drill students with follow up and compare/contrast questions. As usual in CI classrooms, the goal is to get the students focused on an image/idea so that they are not aware of all the repetitions that the teacher is getting via her circling of the questions being discussed.
Note that this process can take as much or as little class time as the teacher wishes. It can be a nice fast ten minute discussion on just one question after the SSR period to start class, or it can take the entire period. The objective of the teacher is to finish all ten questions by the end of the week, along with related discussions that bring in the (fourth column) answers provided by the other students.
This activity can be done at all levels, as long as the teacher stays in bounds and goes slowly enough. For first year students, it is pure listening and answering questions. Obviously for upper level student the discussion can indeed become quite lively, with lots of output.
The teacher circles. The students take notes (in their notebooks, not on the back of the questions sheet). The Quiz Writer writes the quiz. There can be as many as two quizzes or day, or just one at the end of the week. The Artist draws. When a particular question loses energy or whenever the teacher wants, a quick brain break is given. The artist can be consulted at anytime, and her work, whether it be seen on the document camera or on an interactive whiteboard, always provides a nice image for the class. After that, the teacher moves to the next question. It’s an instant mega CI lesson plan.
The original questions are projected for ease of reference during the entire process.