This requires keeping the discussion on-topic and moving fast enough to be productive, while going slowly enough to ensure everyone has a chance to speak about the questions that engage them. The ideal is a noisy class in which the professor rarely, or never, speaks. The best discussions are group efforts, rather than having one team member at a time accept all responsibility. However, it often helps to put one person in charge of deciding who will speak next and another person in charge of making sure nobody else is overlooked, with a third team member responding to classmates' remarks as required. A team using this model should be sure that every team member plays each of these roles at least once.
Research exercises .
Do not use computerized databases to locate these articles. And especially, do not use the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature . Instead, go to the library stacks and look at the annual indexes published by each journal. I suggest that you look first at Ethnology , differences , Journal of Family History , Journal of the History of Ideas , Cultural Anthropology , American Quarterly , Journal of American History , American Historical Review , American Ethnographer , Signs , Social Text , Latin American Perspectives , Gay-Lesbian Quarterly , Journal of Homosexuality , Radical History , and Victorian Studies . Using the format suggested by Kate Turabian in A Manual for Writers of Term Papers , compose a bibliography of these articles.