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Question Formulation Technique

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  1. Question Formulation Technique Anthem

  2. Objective Today all students will develop questions based on a focus topic related to Anthem. They will choose priority questions as prompts for their final Argumentative Essay.

  3. Question Formulation Technique (QFT) Step 1: Produce questions based on QFocus Step 2: Categorize questions Step 3: Improve questions Step 4: Prioritize questions Step 5: Questions Argumentative Paper Step 6: Reflection Before we get started, let’s go over ground rules

  4. Ask as many questions as you can • Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer the questions • Write down every question exactly as it is stated • Change any statement into a question Group Ground Rules:Rules for Producing Questions What may be difficult about following these rules??

  5. Are you ready to start QFT?? • Select a Scribe • Follow the Ground Rules of Producing Questions • Share questions slowly to allow the scribe to capture questions accurately etc.

  6. Focus “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” - Anthony Burgess

  7. Step 2: Categorizing QuestionsIdentify the level of your questions(write level # on chart in a different color) • LEVEL ONE • Specific information that can be found • directly in the text (such as a definition); one word or yes/no answers; “copy and paste” • LEVEL TWO • Answer implied in the text by finding information for the answer in several places • LEVEL THREE • Answers based on experiences and opinionsthat is supported by textual facts

  8. Look over your list of questions and select three (3) questions to “bump up” Change a Level 1 to either Level 2 or 3 Continue your numbering with these questions Step 3: Improving Questions

  9. Choose the two (2) most important questions from your list Keep this in mind when selecting questions: What questions would you need answered to write an Argument essay on choices, based on the book Anthem? Step 4: Prioritizing Questions

  10. Please Share: • 1 priority question • Rationale for selecting it • Question Level Share your Questions Listening focus during sharing – listen for questions similar to your group’s priority questions; tally # of times

  11. Students will pick one of the final Priority Questions to write their Argument essay for Anthem Step 5: Next Steps – Using Priority Questions

  12. Period 4 Priority Questions • In your own words, explain what makes something good and bad. Give examples. (2) • Who is Anthony Burgess and what is his opinion on this quote? How would you react to his opinion and why? (3) • What do you think is more important, choices and rights of an individual or the well being and success of the whole society? Use textual evidence and personal experience. (3) • How does this quote “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be man” relate to the book and to reality? (3) • Will there be backfire if he chooses one over the other? (2) • Can equality be a good or bad thing? (2) • How can a man cease to be a man, and in what circumstances can this quote relate to the novella Anthem? (3)

  13. Period 2 Questions • Would not being able to choose be considered detrimental, why or why not? (3) • If free-will is taken away, what will be left of a person? (Is a person truly a person without free will?) (3) • What things change a man from being a man? (2) • Is choice good or evil? Does choice matter? What are the pros and cons of choice? (3) • What happens when a man cannot choose? (2) • Does choice matter, why or why not? (3) • Why can’t men choose? Support your claim with textual evidence. (2/3) • If a man cannot choose, what is the point of life for humans? (3) • Even when equality is praised, why do men still strive for individuality? (3)

  14. Period 1 Questions • Why does choice create sacrifice? (3) • How does this quote relate to the book Anthem? (3) • Would a society be considered a perfect society if they have individuality and choice, why? (3) • When is it okay to not have a choice? (3) • Does choice dictate whether someone is human or not? (3) • Why is it hard for people to express who they really are? (3) • Will a man’s choice in life define himself? (3) • Even when equality is praised, why do men still strive for individuality? (3) • What are people’s perspective of a man? (3) • If you were to choose one, which is more important, freedom of choice emphasized by Anthony Burgess through his quote, or social equality depicted in the book Anthem? (3) • Why can’t people be free in Anthem? (2)

  15. -Why is learning to ask your own questions important for learning? -What was positive and challenging about this activity? QFT Written Participant Reflection

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