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Question Formulation Technique

In this activity, students will use the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) to create priority questions for their final argumentative essay on the book Anthem. They will categorize, improve, and prioritize their questions, focusing on the theme of choices in the novel. This activity encourages critical thinking and deepens understanding of the text.

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Question Formulation Technique

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  1. Question Formulation Technique Anthem

  2. Objective Today all students will develop questions based on a focus topic related to Anthem. They will choose priority questions as prompts for their final Argumentative Essay.

  3. Question Formulation Technique (QFT) Step 1: Produce questions based on QFocus Step 2: Categorize questions Step 3: Improve questions Step 4: Prioritize questions Step 5: Questions Argumentative Paper Step 6: Reflection Before we get started, let’s go over ground rules

  4. Ask as many questions as you can • Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer the questions • Write down every question exactly as it is stated • Change any statement into a question Group Ground Rules:Rules for Producing Questions What may be difficult about following these rules??

  5. Are you ready to start QFT?? • Select a Scribe • Follow the Ground Rules of Producing Questions • Share questions slowly to allow the scribe to capture questions accurately etc.

  6. Focus “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” - Anthony Burgess

  7. Step 2: Categorizing QuestionsIdentify the level of your questions(write level # on chart in a different color) • LEVEL ONE • Specific information that can be found • directly in the text (such as a definition); one word or yes/no answers; “copy and paste” • LEVEL TWO • Answer implied in the text by finding information for the answer in several places • LEVEL THREE • Answers based on experiences and opinionsthat is supported by textual facts

  8. Look over your list of questions and select three (3) questions to “bump up” Change a Level 1 to either Level 2 or 3 Continue your numbering with these questions Step 3: Improving Questions

  9. Choose the two (2) most important questions from your list Keep this in mind when selecting questions: What questions would you need answered to write an Argument essay on choices, based on the book Anthem? Step 4: Prioritizing Questions

  10. Please Share: • 1 priority question • Rationale for selecting it • Question Level Share your Questions Listening focus during sharing – listen for questions similar to your group’s priority questions; tally # of times

  11. Students will pick one of the final Priority Questions to write their Argument essay for Anthem Step 5: Next Steps – Using Priority Questions

  12. Period 4 Priority Questions • In your own words, explain what makes something good and bad. Give examples. (2) • Who is Anthony Burgess and what is his opinion on this quote? How would you react to his opinion and why? (3) • What do you think is more important, choices and rights of an individual or the well being and success of the whole society? Use textual evidence and personal experience. (3) • How does this quote “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be man” relate to the book and to reality? (3) • Will there be backfire if he chooses one over the other? (2) • Can equality be a good or bad thing? (2) • How can a man cease to be a man, and in what circumstances can this quote relate to the novella Anthem? (3)

  13. Period 2 Questions • Would not being able to choose be considered detrimental, why or why not? (3) • If free-will is taken away, what will be left of a person? (Is a person truly a person without free will?) (3) • What things change a man from being a man? (2) • Is choice good or evil? Does choice matter? What are the pros and cons of choice? (3) • What happens when a man cannot choose? (2) • Does choice matter, why or why not? (3) • Why can’t men choose? Support your claim with textual evidence. (2/3) • If a man cannot choose, what is the point of life for humans? (3) • Even when equality is praised, why do men still strive for individuality? (3)

  14. Period 1 Questions • Why does choice create sacrifice? (3) • How does this quote relate to the book Anthem? (3) • Would a society be considered a perfect society if they have individuality and choice, why? (3) • When is it okay to not have a choice? (3) • Does choice dictate whether someone is human or not? (3) • Why is it hard for people to express who they really are? (3) • Will a man’s choice in life define himself? (3) • Even when equality is praised, why do men still strive for individuality? (3) • What are people’s perspective of a man? (3) • If you were to choose one, which is more important, freedom of choice emphasized by Anthony Burgess through his quote, or social equality depicted in the book Anthem? (3) • Why can’t people be free in Anthem? (2)

  15. -Why is learning to ask your own questions important for learning? -What was positive and challenging about this activity? QFT Written Participant Reflection

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