Discussion Director

Name: _________Luis Alberto Castellanos _____________________________

Book:______The devil we know__________________
Chapters: ____chapter 5/ epilogue ________________
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:

1. What do you think about the quote you can occupy Iran, but you cannot
defeat it.?
2. Why you think this quote is true?
3. What do you think will happen if the Unites States invade Iran?
4. What do you think about modern guerrilla war?
5. If Unites States invade Iran whom you think will win?
6. What do you think about the part that a Hezbollah official told about The
United States could not sustain many losses?
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____________________
Chapters: ____chaoter 5/ epilogue ________________
Following the group meeting, the Discussion Director will complete this form with
the help of the group members.
Two topics which generated the most discussion today were:
The one about who will win the war in the case of an invasion from Unites States and the
one of the losses that will make the United States lose the war.

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)
The solutions the book give us in the epilogue is the most intriguing passage for
Carlo and Jorge although for me the most important part or the part that I most
like is the one at the first paragraph of chapter five that is the one of the war
simulation and how Iran won it quickly with fast attacks with small boats.

3. Group Participation Today:

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

Member's
Name
Luis Alberto
Castellanos
Joaquin

Completed
Reading

Contributes
relevant info

Listens to
group
members
4
4

Fulfills
duties
4
4(he was

Teacher input
(for teacher
only)

Reinosos

absent)

Carlo
Martinez

Jorge
Espinoza

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