Discussion. Theoretically it’s the bread and butter of the English classroom, but sometimes it feels like all crusts and crumbs.

How can you get students excited to talk about voice and theme, metaphor and symbolism, when they have a million other things going on?

How do you inspire them to dive in together to the ways that literature illuminates life and life speaks back to the page, when they’re already nervous about speaking up in class and afraid they’ll look bad in front of their friends?

If a good discussion feels like a distant dream to you on rough days, and a tantalizing almost-there vision on good days, the new discussion series is here to help. We’re starting today with five types of discussion that can work for you, and in the coming episodes, we’ll be going much deeper.

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