Bill, this sounds very interesting. We focus on essential questions in our school and we've been trying to make the questions less teacher directed - I think your method would work very well. I just have one question about the voting. Does the class vote on a theme that they will all study or do different groups study different themes? Thanks, Carla
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill IVEY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi! > > The way I did it last year, I simply had them write down a minimum of 15 > questions they would be interested in learning about. I cut-and-pasted > them all into a rather large (!) document. They then worked in small > groups over a couple of days to group questions together. They were asked > to give a title to each group of questions that expressed what the > questions had in common (i.e, a theme). We looked at everyone's ideas > together, and settled on a final grouping. They then voted on which themes > they wanted to study. _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org.
