GROUP RESPONSE ACTIVITY

Context:

  1. Audience?
  2. Purpose?
  3. Genre?
  4. Tone?

Rhetorical Strategies:

  1. Which strategy or strategies?
  2. Where in the text?
  3. Why?
  4. Effectiveness?

Dialectical Responses: Question, Connection, Evaluation

GROUP ACTIVITY: DIALECTICAL RESPONSE TO A TEXT

Directions:

  1. Group Members: List your group member role(s) on the provided class

participation sheets.

a.) presenter: reads materials aloud / shares group ideas with the class

b.) facilitator: asks group members for their ideas / promotes discussion

c.) recorder: writes group member ideas on the provided paper

d.) coach: keeps the mood upbeat / discourages negative attitudes

e.) gatekeeper: guides the group back to the activity when needed

B. Presenter: Read the text aloud.

Group Members: As the text is read aloud, place stickers next to phrases

and/or sentences that stand out to you. (Each student should use at least

two stickers.)

  1. Recorder: On the provided sheet of paper, create a graph like the one below. From all of the parts, receiving stickers, the group should agree on four parts of interest. Write these four selected parts on the “text” side. Record group members’ responses to these four parts on the “response” side. Include response codes when possible. (You are taking notes; you are not responsible for generating all of this information.)
  1. Group Members: Use the following dialectical response options to discuss the four parts that the group selected. Help the recorder takes notes on your responses.

(Q) Question – ask about something in the passage that is unclear

(C) Connect – make a connection to your life, the world, or something you knew or perhaps saw on TV.

(R) Reflect – think deeply about what you just read. What conclusions can you draw about the world, about human nature, or just the way things work?

(E) Evaluate - make a judgment about what you just read.

(F) Fact(s) – identify fact use(s)

(O) Opinion – identify opinion use(s)

(FSF) False Statement of Fact – identify false statement(s) of fact(s)

(RS) Rhetorical Strategies - identify rhetorical strategies in use (Regardless of your choices: Be prepared to discuss rhetorical strategies in use.)

(CON) Reading Context – identify audience, purpose, genre, and/or tone (Regardless of your choices: Be prepared to discuss the context.)

SAMPLE: Dialectical Graph

TEXT / RESPONSE / RESPONSE
CODE