Asking students to apply their ideas to the initial interpretive question helps them develop the idea, think it through more carefully, and pursue implications. It also helps everyone decide whether they find the idea convincing.
Transcript:
These students have been discussing the following question:
Why does the Ogre's wife help Jack two times?
Student: She wants to trap him.
Leader: You think she wants to trap him? If she wants to trap him, why doesn't she turn the oven on the first time? He's right there. Why doesn't she turn it on?
Student: She didn't know ... about the gold and the hen.
Leader: If the first time she doesn't want to trap him, why does she help him, why does she give him food?
Student: She felt sorry for him, I guess.
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