Submit two (2) of each of the following by Wednesday, December 7. I will pick several and post them to the website that evening. Be prepared to discuss them in class on Thursday, December 8th. Questions should be based on the first two staves of
A Christmas Carol.
WORLD CONNECTION QUESTIONSWrite two questions connecting the text to the real world.
Example: When you realize how badly you’ve mistreated someone, how do you go about making things right between you?
CLOSE-ENDED QUESTIONSWrite two questions about the text that will help everyone in the class come to an agreement about events or characters in the text. This question usually has a “correct” answer.
Example: Based on evidence in Stave Two of
A Christmas Carol, what texts did Young Scrooge imagine characters from?
OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONSWrite two insightful questions about the text that will require proof and group discussion and “construction of logic” to discover or explore the answer to the question.
Example: After reading the first two staves of
A Christmas Carol, why was Scrooge such a jerk?
UNIVERSAL THEME/ CORE QUESTIONSWrite two questions dealing with a theme(s) of the text that will encourage group discussion about the universality of the text.
Example: Do you agree with Marley’s ghost, that “humanity should [be our] business”? Explain.
LITERARY ANALYSIS QUESTIONSWrite two questions dealing with HOW an author chose to compose a literary piece. How did the author manipulate point of view, characterization, poetic form, archetypal hero patterns, for example?
Example: In
A Christmas Carol, why is it important that the Ghost of Christmas Past provided flashbacks of Scrooge’s life?
In the need of some holiday cheer? Then grab yourself a book and photograph yourself reading it (do not photograph yourself reading it using the bathroom mirror). E-mail me the picture to me (cmikesell -at- dallasisd -dot- org -- be sure to change the -at- and -dot- ) and Santa will stick some extra-credit in your stocking (metaphorically-speaking).
