1. Using questions to achieve Higher Order Thinking
The Outsiders
Using questions to achieve Higher Order Thinking

3. Question stems are available on our class website!
Levels Defined
Remembering: Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term memory.
Understanding: Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining.
Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or implementing.
Analyzing: Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing.
Evaluating: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.
Creating: Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing.

4. Assignment details; due Tuesday Feb 5th
Create 3 well thought questions relating to The Outsiders that you believe is important and truly shows an understanding of the novel.
Each question should be from a different category
Each question should follow the format given in class
1 index card per question, question is written on the front in marker, the answer is written on the back of the index card with the page number provided for “proof”
Label top of question as the question category used. The example is “remembering”
“Remembering”
What happened immediately after Darry hits Ponyboy for coming home late?
“I turned and ran down the street as fast as I could…” (pg 50)
(Front)
(Back)