10/18/16 Sarah Ramos

Today in class our main objective was to interrogate a text to provide strong discussion questions and then evaluate the quality of a text based question. When we did this we used a combination of text and film. First we analyzed how questions "propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that probe reasoning and evidence; ensure a hearing for a full range of positions on a topic or issue; clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions; and promote divergent and creative perspectives." With the unifying idea being questions, the class used this sentence to come to the conclusion that questions lead to new ideas and conversation. We also decided that a good detailed question should be answered with reasoning and evidence. A good question should encourage interpretation and balance specificity and clarity. We then watched the first scene of Wall-E.

From this film clip, each group had to come up with a questions using each interrogative adverb. My group came up with the sentences "Who is the story about? What caused the area to look like this? Where did the garbage come from? When is this taking place? Why is Wall E building up garbage piles? How long has he been doing this?" Then we had to post one bad sentence and as many one to five good sentences. My bad sentence was "what year is it?" This is a bad sentence because it is too specific to answer or discuss and there is no room for interpretation. My good sentences were "Why is Wall E building up garbage piles? How long has Wall E been building up garbage piles? Who else is on the planet helping him?" These are good sentences because they can be answered using reasoning and evidence. They also can be discussed as people may have their own interpretation and unique answer.