Strategy: FACILITATIVE QUESTIONING
Strategy Explanation: This instructional strategy provides critical thinking in students. The teacher will facilitate discuss in class by provoking students with open-ended questions that clearly have more than one side to them. The students will then discuss them among themselves. This allows students to hear opposing views, or to simply hear a theory that they had not thought of before.
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Text: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
NCSCOS: Competency Goal 1, The learner will demonstrate increasing insight and reflection to print and non-print text through personal expression. Competency Goal 3, The learner will examine argumentation and develop informed opinions.
Lesson: Students will read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and look at themes of race, maturation, exploration, gambling, humor, Realism, and anti-sentimentalist views. Upon finishing the novel, I would designate a class period for the discussion of these themes. I would merely facilitate the conversation among students with questions that can be argued in different perspectives. I will ask open-ended questions and challenge the students to aide their argument with specific textual evidence, as to help them better understand the concept of argument as well as organization and support.