Discussion Director

Name: Myriam Karina Bustillo Rubio

Book:

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Chapters: 22-51
Your job is to develop a list of questions that your group can discuss about
this part of the novel. Your questions should be ones which require thought and get
everyone talking and sharing their opinions and reactions. The best discussion
questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Do
NOT write questions that call for a simple "yes" or "no" answer or a factual detail!
Order for Leading Your Group Discussion

Call on the Summarizer to read the summary.

Pose each one of your questions to your group for discussion

Ask for each member of your group to state their comment/questions about this section of
the novel. Lead your group in response to what each person says.

Call on the Passage Master.

Call on the Vocabulary Reporter.

You fill out the Group Record sheet, with input from your group members

After discussion is completed, assign roles for your next reading and make sure everyone
gets a new role sheet, including absent members.

Call the teacher over. Be ready to discuss items on the Group Record sheet.

Discussion Questions or Topics for Our Lit Circle:

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4.

What does A Thousand Splendid Suns mean?

How does Mariam and Lailas life intersect?
Do you think Mariams actions towards Rasheed were the best thing to do?
How did the war affect the discrimination towards women that was happening
at that time?
5. What do you think Muslims think of this story?

Types of Questions Make sure theyre fat!:

What did you think about......? (name a specific event, action, or character's action)
Why do you think that.......?
What do you think will happen......? (ask for predictions of events and characters' actions)
What is happening at the part where.......?
What do you think ______________ (event/incident) means?
What would you ask the author if you could?
might people of (another background) ___________ think of this story?

What

Daily Group Record Sheet

Book: The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower by Robert
Baer
Chapters: Prologue
Following the group meeting, the Discussion Director will complete this form with
the help of the group members.
1. Two topics which generated the most discussion today were:

War and its effect on discrimination against women

The importance of education
2. As a group, we agreed one of the most important or intriguing passages in this
section was about: (this may or may not be one that the Passage Master selected)

A society has no chance at success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.
(2.16.56)
"And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another
[] Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing
looks pretty to look at, but still standing." (2.21.10)
Fariba, all these people know is war," said Babi. "They learned to walk with a
milk bottle in one hand and a gun in another." (2.24.29)

3. Group Participation Today: (The evidence in the fairness of the grade can
be shown in the audio attached to this blog post)

(1) Means beginning (2) means developing (3) means good (4) means exemplary

Member's
Name
Karina Bustillo
(Discussion
Director)
Irwing
Rodrguez
(The passage
master)
Elizabeth Vega
(Word
reporter)

Completed
Reading

Contributes
relevant info

Listens to
group
members
4

Fulfills
duties

Teacher input
(for teacher
only)

Remember to put your groups work in your team folder with this sheet on top before
you leave class today.