History teachers are frequently frustrated in their efforts to promote class discussion. Class discussion is useful to deliver or reinforce content and to explore or share ideas. Yet teachers learn quickly that they cannot expect good discussion, especially good whole-class discussion, to take place when they want it to. One approach to the problem of discussion favored in recent years has been the "fishbowl" style of monitored discussion. While some teachers report that students respond positively to this activity, informal reports from the author's students suggest that such a response is by no means universal. The problem is to create a student-friendly, teacher-friendly activity that results in prepared students, universal participation, and creative responses to the material. Small Group Scored Discussion offers a good solution to these problems. In a Small Group Scored Discussion, every student in the class participates in a student-led discussion of a reading or collection of readings, the point of which is to engage with the ideas. In this article, the author shares how she develops a Small Group Scored Discussion in a manner that ensures that this activity is content-rich, easy to organize, and pleasant for students.