Today, the objective of the class was "IWBAT evaluate a discussion question's ability to probe evidence. IWBAT craft a strong discussion question based on a unifying idea." We then started the class by looking at the "good" and "bad" questions that the class created on Tuesday. We discussed that good questions contain open-ended inferences, are very specific to a part of the text or evidence, go beyond right and wrong and require analysis over opinion. We also discussed that bad question are not based on evidence, have open-ended guesses, obscure the real questions and are not specific. We then were given three questions from Mr. Rivers and were told to rate them from the best to worst. After ranking them with our groups, we were given two minutes for each question to try to answer the questions, which made us re-think our original ratings. My group and the whole class came to an agreement that the first question was the best, due to it's specificity, evidence from a certain scene, and ability to come up with more questions. After this, Mr. Rivers gave the class an assignment on Google Classroom to come up with a "good" question from the reading of chapters 0-1 in Ready Player One. This is good practice to understand the difference between good and bad questions.
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