Questioning Tennis
This is a game based on an excerpt from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Gary Oldman (Rosencrantz) and Tim Roth (Guildenstern) taunt each other with questions. It provides a wonderful introduction to a game played in pairs or small groups encouraging students to respond to questions as seen in the second video. A fun way to breakdown student fear of questioning.
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What TYpes of Questions do we ask?
Here's a chance for students to think about their own questions. As an introduction to exploring questions, the Zits comic below may be used to encourage the students to identify the characterisitics of a Lame and Less Lame question. Throughout the day invite different students to record the wide range of questions that are asked on strips of paper. Once collected and recorded students are encourage to design their own rating scale with descriptors. The scale or Question Meter is then used to classify the questions asked during the day. Students are encouraged t draw some conclusions from the information that has been collected. The Question Meter may be hung in the classroom and provide ongoing reference to effective questions.
Three Questions
This powerful moral story by Leo Tolstoy is retold by Jon Muth. The reader journeys with Nikolai who asks three important questions, What is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? Nikolai asks his friends but his curiosity to find a deeper truth drives him beyond his known experiences.
A great book to read that invites any reader to respond with their own answers to Nikolai's questions. Readers may wish to explore their own questions they might take to the wisest among us. A thoughtfully planned series of lessons by Caroline Morrison can be downloaded at Working Together, a site dedicated to developing independent and actively thinking individuals.
A great book to read that invites any reader to respond with their own answers to Nikolai's questions. Readers may wish to explore their own questions they might take to the wisest among us. A thoughtfully planned series of lessons by Caroline Morrison can be downloaded at Working Together, a site dedicated to developing independent and actively thinking individuals.