Participating in Discussions

Grades 11-12 discussions happen in a range of formats, one-on-one, in groups, or teacher-led, with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, and doing them well means both initiating and participating effectively, building on others' ideas while expressing your own clearly and persuasively. This expects real preparation too: coming to a discussion having both read and researched the material under study, and explicitly drawing on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas. Working with your peers to promote civil, democratic discussions and decision-making, setting clear goals and deadlines, and establishing individual roles as needed, propelling conversations by posing and responding to questions that probe reasoning and evidence, ensuring a hearing for a full range of positions on a topic or issue, clarifying, verifying, or challenging ideas and conclusions, and promoting divergent and creative perspectives, and responding thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, synthesizing comments, claims, and evidence made on all sides of an issue, resolving contradictions when possible, and determining what additional information or research is needed to deepen the investigation or complete the task, round out the skill.

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