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You can find the discussion schedule on the opening page of our BruinLearn site.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this assignment, you’ll work in groups to coordinate discussions of about 50 minutes to one hour. This is a chance for you to both delve more deeply into a subject (there’s no way to learn like teaching!) and to practice and get feedback on your own teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please meet as a group in advance of class to work out the mechanics and the details of the reading. I would like you to begin your discussion with a five- to ten-minute introduction to the reading. One group member can take this on, or you can split it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the bulk of your time, though, I don’t want you to simply recap the reading. Instead, I’d like to ask you to challenge yourselves to inspire your classmates to go beyond reading comprehension and toward activating, challenging, and engaging with the reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feel free to be as creative as you’d like in planning our discussion. We can participate in a typical, seminar-style conversation, or you can try other activities<\/a> to get people working and thinking in other ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes discussions don’t work out, no matter what you do, so I won’t penalize you for experimenting with something that doesn’t go as planned. Instead, I’ll be watching to see that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n