Four Corners
Four corners is a participation/questioning strategy that involves movement:
Purpose: Four Corners allows students to reflect on and synthesize their thinking by using physical movement and visual cues. Like Take a Stand, this protocol can not only provide practice in the social dimensions of debate, but encourage students to support, reflect on, and possibly change their answers based on the knowledge of their peers.
Materials: Signs indicating the question and location of the four potential answers
Procedure
1. Students form four groups based on commonalities in their responses to a question posed. For example, you might ask, “Who is a resilient character in the novel Unbroken?” and then designate four characters as potential responses, one for each corner of the room.
2. Once students physically move to a “corner” of the room based on their answer, they discuss their thinking, and one student from each group shares the group’s ideas with the whole class.
3. Students in other groups/corners may move to that corner if they change their thinking based on what they hear.
Variations: The number of groups and responses need not be four: vary the number based on your purpose.
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