10/18/16 Juliana Oelkers Blog Post

Today we started class with writing our objectives in our notes. Our objectives were to be able to interrogate a text to provide strong discussion questions and evaluate the quality of a text based question. We also talked about how our class film club should combine both the text and film. Additionally the club should include conversations that show analysis of the texts and various interpretations of a unifying idea.
A unifying idea brings both texts together as one and we used setting as an example in class. Also, we discussed how interrogative questions can help propel conversations forward. Next, we talked in our groups and concluded that good questions are detailed and specific, explore all angles and perspectives, push the truth, and lead to more questions.
In order to practice writing good questions we watched the beginning clip of the film Wall-E. The clip showed how Earth was deserted by humans and how a robot compressed garbage into squares and piled them up stories high everywhere. Next, using interrogative questions, our groups wrote one good question about the clip and one bad question. Finally we posted our questions on google classroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLx_7wEmwms