Discussion Director

Bud, Not Buddy

• Your job is to involve the students in your group by thinking and talking about the section of the book you have just read.  You are going to ask questions that really help the students in your group think about the reading. Your questions should require students to discuss their interpretations of the text and connect background experience and knowledge with the text. You want all students involved in the discussion and talking about issues that come up during the reading.

• Your job as the Discussion Director is to come up with 5 thinking questions.  Your teacher really wants you to help the students in your group to go back to the book to find their answers if they don’t know them. So, to help this run very smoothly, you need to write down the questions, your answers to your questions, and the page numbers where the students can reference the text to justify their responses to your questions.

When developing your questions, think about Bud's experiences in the orphanage, with the Amoses, in the library, the bread line, the Hoovervilles, and his trip from Flint to Grand Rapids, Michigan.