Some Tweaks to How We use Questioning with our Lit Circles

So I went to a conference in Baltimore and there was actually a seminar specifically on using Bloom's Taxonomy with Literature Circles! Go figure. One of the thoughts that this seminar reinforced for me was the importance of having layers of question-asking and discussion, so that each layer informs and improves the next. There is also a filterization process that happens from one layer to the next, removing less salient or interesting questions and thoughts, and focusing attention and energy onto the highest quality questions and thoughts. To contextualize these "layers" and "filters":

Layer 1: Independent Work
students independently read and generate questions and theorize answers in their journals

Filter 1: Students individually choose one question that they'd like to ask in their literature circles

Layer 2: Small Group Discussion
students share their questions and discuss answers in literature circles.

Filter 2: There is one "Question Master" in each group who chooses the question that led to the best discussion. He/she writes this question on a post-it and puts it in our Think Tank for Socratic Seminar discussion

Layer 3: Whole Group Discussion
Question masters launch and propel Socratic Seminar forward by introducing the questions they prioritized from their Literature Circles.

Filter 3: Me? I don't give feedback when seminar is happening, I try to say nothing so as not interfere with their discussion. At the end though, I have begun asking them to vote on which question yielded the most fruitful discussion. Question masters take pride in having their question selected. Also having students praise particularly salient thinking they heard may highlight positive contributions and set an upward trend.

I hope this makes some sort of sense, I'm very into this idea of revision/refining content/student work through multiple lenses so as to increase salience and quality.