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The Big Question: What is it, and why should we care?

The Big Question: What is it, and why should we care?. Lisa Levy and Jana Wagoner Loudoun County High School Leesburg, VA. Motivating and Engaging High School Writers with Big Questions. Choose a question from the options below:. What is worth fighting for ? What makes a winner ?

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The Big Question: What is it, and why should we care?

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  1. The Big Question: What is it, and why should we care? Lisa Levy and Jana Wagoner Loudoun County High School Leesburg, VA

  2. Motivating and Engaging High School Writers with Big Questions

  3. Choose a question from the options below: What is worth fighting for? What makes a winner? Why are we fascinated by the unknown? How important is status?

  4. Take three minutes and journal the answer to your question using experiences you’ve had in your life.

  5. How to begin the year-long inquiry List of Questions Novel Synopses Big Question Generator

  6. Look back at the question you chose, and think about how your question connects to some of your favorite novels. Jot down a few notes.

  7. Connecting your big question to literary works

  8. Now think about news stories, songs, movies or TV shows that connect to your big question. How do they answer it?

  9. - Guidelines for gathering big question artifacts- Big Question artifact reflection worksheet

  10. Preparing for the research paper Prompt Rubric Anchor Paper 1 Anchor Paper 2 Anchor Paper 3 Anchor Paper 4

  11. Putting it all together Big Question Graphic Organizer

  12. Examples of student work 2015 Essay that Scored a 4 2015 Essay that Scored a 3

  13. Questions

  14. Bibliography Heinemann Publishing. "Motivating and Engaging High School Writers with Big Questions." YouTube. YouTube. Web. 26 Oct. 2015. Loudoun County Public Schools. "Honors Assessment Resources." Loudoun County Public Schools. 17 Aug. 2015. Web. 20 Aug. 2015. “What are you willing to sacrifice?” Big Question Assignment. Leesburg. 29 May 2015. “What makes a great competitor?” Big Question Assignment. Leesburg. 24 April 2015. “What makes us fascinated by the unknown?” Big Question Assignment. Leesburg. 31 May 2015. “Why are we fascinated by the unknown?” Big Question Assignment. Leesburg. 31 April 2015.

  15. Disclaimer Reference within this presentation to any specific commercial or non-commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer or otherwise does not constitute or imply an endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Virginia Department of Education.

  16. Presentation by Jana Wagoner, Jana.Wagoner@lcps.org Loudoun County Public Schools material used per permission from English Supervisor Michelle Schmidt-Moore, Michele.SchmidtMoore@lcps.org

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