What is the Shared Inquiry™ method of learning? How does using it in Junior Great Books® programs help students read for deeper comprehension, ask incisive questions, and become more engaged with fiction and nonfiction texts? How does practicing the Shared Inquiry method build teaching skills?
Learn the answers to these and other important questions in our FREE webinar, An Overview of Shared Inquiry, on August 25!
In this interactive one-hour webinar, you will:
- Participate in a rich Shared Inquiry discussion of “The Road Not Taken”
- See exactly how Junior Great Books programs improve students’ reading comprehension, speaking and listening, writing, and collaboration skills
- Learn how teachers inspire student participation through open-ended questioning
- See how the Shared Inquiry method uses writing in every step of the learning process
This overview will provide details that demonstrate why students in schools that use our method and materials learn how to consider important ideas, find their voice, and develop a deep understanding of complex texts.
“When the answer is their own and they really have deep passion about their thoughts and their ideas, students really want to offer their text evidence to prove why they think what they think, and that’s exciting for them.”
—Lauren Guest
Instructional Coach/Reading Intervention
Oakwood Intermediate School, College Station, TX
Discuss “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
This webinar features a Shared Inquiry discussion of “The Road Not Taken,” the well-known poem by Robert Frost. When you discuss the poem, led by a seasoned Great Books Foundation trainer, you will understand how rich literature supports many interpretations. You will also see why students are excited to participate in Shared Inquiry discussions, where they get to voice their own interpretations and hear what their classmates have to say.
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Questions?
If you have any questions about this webinar or about Junior Great Books classroom materials or professional development, please contact Carly Brink at 312.646.7126 or brinkc@greatbooks.org.