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In Shared Inquiry Discussion, the leader approaches students with a genuine question -- one for which she does not have any single most satisfying answer. This enables her to be open to whatever ideas, answers and interpretations her students raise.
The purpose of Junior Great Books is for students to think for themselves by building and developing their own answers and interpretations. A good leader needs to be ready to pursue ideas and answers of any shape and variety, and resist the temptation to judge the idea.
Leaders try to understand why a student thinks the way he does, and find out if the idea can be supported from the text.
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