discussion director Petar BLOG 1

The book we are currently reading is an adventure book called the Egypt Game which was written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The book has won a Newberry award in the year 1967. My job was the discussion director, Which is when you have to give certain questions that the group would be willing to discuss. The thirty five pages we were supposed to read were mainly focused on describing the main characters and the setting. My first question or demand was if a member of the group could summarize what happened in a specific chapter. For this question everyone briefly summarized what happened which was great because it meant that everyone read what they were supposed to. My second question was related to connections, I asked the group members if they had any connections to the story. Nina told us a very interesting story about a man and women, relatively old people, who called the police for no reason because Nina and her friend were playing in the grass. In my third question I asked the group members to share their thoughts about the book, who their favorite character is and why. The answers for this question were simple and one sided, everyone chose Melanie. My last but not least question was what do you think will happen next? Everyone suspected that it would have to do something with the professor and because of my further reading it was indeed true that the topic of the next several chapters was the professor. Overall the discussion was very good, everyone stayed on topic and the answers to most of the questions were detailed and interesting.