Chris Link 10/20

On Thursday the twentieth of October in the year 2016, we walked into class and were as usual greeted by Mr. Rivers. Our table first discussd who had actually read the book, and unsurprisingly most of us had. Mr. Rivers then proceeded to commend us for having made good responses to the question he posed on Tuesday that being, "Make ONE of your questions as bad as possible. Post it here. Make AT LEAST ONE of your questions as strong as possible. Post it here too." After this we looked at three questions, telling us to number them 1-3 in regards to how god of a discussion question they were. We took two minutes to discuss each question, the whole time Mr. Rivers would walk around listening to the discussions we were having and prompting us to go back to the Wall-E video clip to find evidence. The first question was the best discussion question because it allowed for many different interpretations of the same choice in the film, as well as having those interpretations be backed up by particular implications in the clip. The second and third questions were both terrible because they stimulated only wild speculation that could not be reasonably backed up by any events in the clip. We then talked about what good and bad discussion questions do. These are the notes i took for this part of the class, "Things that good questions do

Open ended, inferences, specific, encourages open thinking, goes beyond right and wrong

Things that bad questions do,

Not based in evidence, speculations/ guesses, obscure/cover up real question" To beat the dead horse even more, he then pulled up a page with many of the good and bad questions that were posted on Tuesday. By far the best terrible question was , "What was that thing?" This question elegantly throws specificity and clarity out the window, making way for confusion and befuddlement. The following picture depicts a group of people most likely having a good discussion, of course having been prompted by an exceptional discussion question first. We ended the class by revising our good sentences from Tuesday.