Monday April 29: Your Call

Greetings, superior humans!

Today I would like to do a two part assignment:

A) Creating your own questions

B) Inflicting them on your classmates

Lets start with point A)

The questions I have in mind will naturally have to do with the topic at hand: resources, which nations have them, the stuff that's made from them and their strategic overall importance.

The kind of questions I'm looking for are the higher level questions, those that fall into these categories

Types of Questions I am looking for	Keywords that would go with each set of questions
Applying: can you use the information in a new way?	choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write.
Analyzing: can you distinguish between the different parts?	appraise, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test.
Evaluating: can you justify a stand or decision?	appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, evaluate
Creating: can you create a new product or point of view?	assemble, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, write

What I will require each group of you to do is to create at least THREE higher order type questions. Along with each of these questions, you will create the conditions for answering these questions, ie what specific issues you want your classmates to address, as well as the minimal amount of writing you will require of them to answer each of these questions (number of complete sentences, word count, etc etc)




Now for point B)

After each group sends me three higher order questions, I will consider them, and choose that which is best. It will be posted on this blog later on this class, with your names just above it. All other groups will be required to answer this question, and send it in to me by email. Before the end of this class

If NONE of your questions proves to be taking this assignment seriously, I will ship them back with a "start over" message. Which means you will need to come up with something that's for real.

I will be posting the questions as I receive them. Those who created them are not responsible for answering them; that's the job for the rest of you.

Cheers,
Mr. L