As a class, discuss the following questions:
- Values drive how people live their lives and see the world and inform our sense of right and wrong. What values do you have that influenced the topic you chose?
- How did approaching a topic of disagreement with openness and curiosity affect your exchanges across differences?
- How did listening generously affect your exchanges across differences?
- How did seeking to understand, rather than debate affect your exchanges across differences?
- How did allowing your partner to speak for himself or herself affect your exchanges across differences?
- How did reciprocating respectfully with your point of view affect your exchanges across differences?
- How did acknowledging both similarity and differences affect your exchanges across differences?
- How could it help American society if citizens approached differences of opinion this way in the public square?
- What happens when the ability to dialogue important issues is removed in society? How is society affected?