1. Do Now 9/27: Get your journal (BUT LEAVE YOUR WRITING BINDER – WE ARE NOT USING IT TODAY) Read the poem on the following slide and answer the question in your journal.

2. “There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors who have no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labor of fact collectors as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict - their best illumination comes from above the skylight.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Do you aspire to be a one-story, two- story, or three-story person? Why?

3. Costa’s Levels of Questioning One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. Chinese Proverb

4. Teaching Costa’s Three Levels Students will learn the concept of Higher Order Thinking Students will practice formulating questions of increasing complexity Students will reflect on how questioning skills can help them learn

6. Level One KnowledgeComprehension DefineRestate RepeatLabel ListIdentify DescribeSummarize RecallParaphrase

7. Level 1 Questions… Level 1 is like the ground floor- the foundation of a building- important information you need to have, such as definitions, numbers, formulas. –The answers can be found in the text or other sources –Very concrete and pertains to the text –Asks for facts about what has been heard or read –Information is recalled in the exact manner/form it was heard

8. Level Two ApplicationAnalysis UseAnalyze PracticeDifferentiate DiagramRevise ContrastExperiment ConstructGenerate

9. Level 2 Questions… The answer can be inferred from the text Although more abstract than a Level 1 question, it deals only with the text Information can be broken down in parts Involves examining in detail, analyzing motives or causes, making inferences, finding information to support generalizations or decision making Questions combine information in a new way

10. Level Three SynthesisEvaluation CombineDebate OrganizeConclude JudgeInterpret PredictJustify MeasureArgue

11. Level 3 Questions… The answer goes beyond the text Is abstract and does not pertain to the text Ask that judgments be made from information Gives opinions about issues, judges the validity of ideas or other products and justifies opinions and ideas Provoke discussion of abstract ideas or issues

12. Practice - LOTF With your group, create 5 level 1 questions, 4 level 2 questions, and 3 level 3 questions Prepare to share you best question from each level.