Unfortunately, I have caught one of the many bugs that has been swirling around my classroom these past few weeks, causing me to have a pounding head, fuzzy brain, sore throat, hoarse voice, and a general feeling of malaise. Not good.
I am hoping that through either email, the blog, or word of mouth, you will know that I am cancelling class on Tues, Nov. 5 and will see you next on Thursday.
On Tuesday, therefore, we will not be coming up with good inquiry/quiz questions and working on strong answers for them. We will do that on Thursday, instead. Keep up with the assigned readings as listed on the syllabus and we will use all of those readings in putting together our questions. I would like to give you even more practice in this skill, so I am going to use a similar prompt for this week's blogs. See below...
This week's blogging assignments:
Blog A:
Based on the readings, come up with 4 questions that would be good inquiry questions (make you think) and could be used for class discussion or on a quiz as a short answer/essay question. Make sure the question asks you to do the types of college-level critical thinking that our quiz questions ask you to do; for example, they don't just ask to regurgitate facts, but instead analyze, evaluate, interpret, and synthesize. Then, choose one question and answer it in detail and with specific examples from the readings. Consider it a type of practice quiz.
Blog B:
Read through some of the questions and answers your peers have submitted. Which are strong, college-level questions and why or why not? Be specific and find a few examples to evaluate. Which are strong, college-level answers and why or why not? What can you learn from this week's exercises in anticipating and answering quiz questions? How can you apply that to your own studying?
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