We've been hearing a lot of enthusiasm from facilitators for discussion plans on readings. Check out three new plans below:

Discussion plan for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "The Drum Major Instinct", used by Kelli Covey and Rebecca Sanders for an MLK Day discussion with staff at Project YES in Chicago in January 2011. Participants listened to an audio clip of King's sermon.

Discussion plan for Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "kitchenette building", used by YangYang Zong for a PCR staff meeting in December 2010.

Discussion plan for Naomi Shihab Nye's "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change", used by Cathy Avila-Linn and Kathleen Rice to facilitate a Civic Reflection Regional Dialogue sponsored by California State University's Center for Community Engagement in October 2010.

Check out other sample discussion plans from our Sample Materials page:

• A Bed for the Night
• The Bishop's Beggar
• The Four Traditions with Giving Autobiography
• Tocqueville's Democracy in America
• The Eleventh
• Mending Wall
• The Road Not Taken
• He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded