Creating

Agenda Creating your own Deeper Thinking questions for your own short story!! What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? How can I use it? Collab Time with classmates Draft of 2 questions Rough Draft of Answers to your own questions

Creating vs. Memorizing

Bloom’s TAxonomy

Remember: When did the second world war start? What can you remember about The Pedestrian: What was Leonard’s profession? What is the chemical symbol for Gold? When did the second world war start?

Understand: What can you tell me about The Pedestrian: Summarize The Pedestrian in your own words. Explain the events that led up to Canadian Confederation.

Apply: Infer/ Demonstrate what you know about the year 2053 in The Pedestrian Choose which literary device is the most powerful in The Pedestrian.

Analyze: Differentiate between the major and minor conflict in the short story The Pedestrian. Examine Leonard’s individuality in relation to the society that he lives in.

Evaluating Conclude whether or not technology is a source of isolation as evidenced in The Pedestrian. Contrast the impact of setting on the protagonists in The Pedestrian and Identities.

Evaluative Questions judge, conclude, evaluate, defend,, decide, criticize, compare, consider, contrast, deduce, relate, solve, critique, assess, justify Critique the role that technology plays in the lives of the citizens of Bradbury’s earth in 2053. How do they compare to the student population of CPA in 2015? Contrast the stereotypes which the protagonist and police officer make in the final moments of the story. Consider what must have informed these stereotypes. Assess the use of irony in The Pedestrian and Identities. How do both stories use irony to enforce their theme?

Creating combine, devise, integrate, revise, conceive, propose, generalize, compose, extend, construct, organize, design, rearrange, synthesize, create, produce, expand, rewrite, develop, role play

Steps to Success… Focus on the Theme box and the Conflict boxes in your Short Story Inventory. What was the major conflict? Is it still a conflict today? How? Why? What questions or concerns does the Theme bring up? What are the top literary devices? How do they contribute to the story? What was the hardest thing for you to understand about your story? What questions could you ask to help someone understand your story better? You are also allowed to ask people to compare stories if yours is similar to another story that we read.

Evaluative Questions judge, conclude, evaluate, defend,, decide, criticize, compare, consider, contrast, deduce, relate, solve, critique, assess, justify Critique the role that technology plays in the lives of the citizens of Bradbury’s earth in 2053. How do they compare to the student population of CPA in 2015? Contrast the stereotypes which the protagonist and police officer make in the final moments of the story. Consider what must have informed these stereotypes. Assess the use of irony in The Pedestrian and Identities. How do both stories use irony to enforce their theme?

Creating your questions You need to come up with 2 Deep Thinking Questions. Use the vocabulary from the board as your first word in your question. Do you want your student to consider the theme of the story? The Characters? The importance of a particular literary device? Comparing two different stories? Lit. Devices Theme

After you have a draft of your 2 questions… Once you have 2 questions you will then conference with anyone else who covered the same story as you. Share your questions with one another and rate each others questions out of 4. Rate out of 4

1=The questions are literal and only rely on remembering/ memorizing 1=The questions are literal and only rely on remembering/ memorizing. They can be answered in 2 sentences. 2= The questions do not use Bloom’s vocab and/or focus on only one part of the story. 3= Both questions are either about them or lit. devices, but they do use Bloom’s vocab. 4= Both questions confront the big picture issues in your story. One is about theme and the other about a literary device. Bloom’s vocab!!

How Can you Get a 16/16? Topic Sentence: Use a quote What is the main idea of your answer? Harrison Bergeron is similar to Leonard Mead because they both remain true to themselves and symbolize individuality in their different societies. Use a quote You need to use a quote from your story. You should introduce your quote and explain it. Ex. Leonard lives in a society which is lacking life. The city reminds Leonard of a “graveyard”. No one is asking questions about the world around them and act like zombies, which is very similar to Harrison’s experience. Which Bloom’s word did you use? Are you actually answering it

Bloom’s Words Compare and Contrast Defending and Persuading your reader that you are right: Evaluate Conclude Justify Defend Debate: You have to explain both sides of the argument and then tell me why one is right over the other.

Once you have a rating from your classmate… Once you have your rating then you are ready to start answering the questions. You will be typing these up You must include: a Quote- be sure to introduce your quote and follow up : min. 8sentences : topic sentence