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title: Big Paper - Building a Silent Conversation -
description: www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/big-paper-silent-conversation This classroom routine, which can be used in a variety of instructional contexts, promotes discussion by inviting students to engage deeply with a topic through silently writing responses to a stimulus and then reading and responding to their peers’ comments. At the end of the routine, students are invited to openly debrief in small groups to discuss their thoughts.
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# [Big Paper - Building a Silent Conversation -](https://www.tripoded.com/blog/2019/04/big-paper-building-a-silent-conversation)

 Written by [Ben Politzer](https://www.tripoded.com/blog/author/ben-politzer) | Apr 25, 2019 4:42:30 PM

[**www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/big-paper-silent-conversation**](https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/big-paper-silent-conversation)

This classroom routine, which can be used in a variety of instructional contexts, promotes discussion by inviting students to engage deeply with a topic through silently writing responses to a stimulus and then reading and responding to their peers’ comments. At the end of the routine, students are invited to openly debrief in small groups to discuss their thoughts.

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