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 ID: 477816
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The Big Question: What is it, and why should we care?
Lisa
Levy
and Jana
Wagoner
Loudoun County High School
Leesburg, VASlide2
Motivating
and Engaging High School Writers with Big
QuestionsSlide3
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?Slide4
Take three
minutes and journal the answer to your question using experiences you’ve had in your life.Slide5
How to begin the year-long inquiry
List of Questions
Novel Synopses
Big Question GeneratorSlide6
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.Slide7
Connecting your big question to literary worksSlide8
Now think about news stories, songs, movies or TV shows that connect to your big question. How do they answer it?Slide9
- Guidelines for gathering big question artifacts
- Big Question artifact reflection worksheetSlide10
Preparing for the research paper
Prompt
Rubric
Anchor Paper 1
Anchor Paper 2
Anchor Paper 3
Anchor Paper 4Slide11
Putting it all together
Big Question Graphic OrganizerSlide12
Examples of student work
2015 Essay that Scored a 4
2015 Essay that Scored a 3Slide13
QuestionsSlide14
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. Slide15
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.Slide16
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