Friday, December 01, 2006

Essential what?

We have done a good job so far brainstorming questions to ask the people we are going to meet. Now let's pull from those ideas to create our Essential Question.

Each and every one of you needs to write his/her own essential question. Using the "comment" feature, post your essential question. Please Please Please (aka --you must) post your essential question by WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6TH.

Here's a template from Mr. Mundahl on how to form an essential question.

Template
Sentence 1: Background or history of your topic. Gives reader a chance to figure out what we are talking about.
Sentence 2: State a large, broad problem or issue with your topic.
Sentence 3: Ask a question that - if answered might be a part of the solution to the problem you identified.

Example Brainstorm:
1) People have always been concerned about fashion.
2) But now fashion is taken to such an extreme with TV and photoshop that girls are starving themselves to look like models.
3) How are up and coming designers dealing with this?

Might become:
People through history have always worn clothing for protection as well as to make themselves attractive. In recent times the fashion industry has taken this to such an extreme that young girls are starving themselves to look like the fashion models they see on TV. Are designers and fashion students in Boston aware of this trend - and if so what are they doing about it?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry i'm late but could this be my Essential Question....

What would your rehabilitation be for someone who encountered vertebrae damage during the war, and was later paralyzed from surgery

~JuLeS R

Anonymous said...

Essential question idea:

What would be the effects of having to many x-rays and MRI? Would it be hazzardious to your health?

-Samantha Morse