163 Questions to Write or Talk About | discussion question
Manyofthesepromptsarehelpful,butthosethatyieldonlyyes/noresponses,suchas“DoyouwatchtheSuperbowl?”maynotallowforasignificantdepthofdiscussion.Byreplacingsomeofthe“doyou”phrasingwith“why”andmovingthefocusawayfromtheself,theresultwillbeabitmoreeffective:Draft:DoyouwatchtheSuperbowl?Revised:WhydopeoplewatchtheSuperbowl?WhyshouldpeoplewatchtheSuperbowl?WhydoyouwatchtheSuperbowl?:)HiMindy–Weposeaninitialquestion,usuallyinthesimplestformwecanaskit,mostlytocatchstudents’attention.Onceyouclickintoeac...
Many of these prompts are helpful, but those that yield only yes/no responses, such as “Do you watch the Superbowl?” may not allow for a significant depth of discussion.
By replacing some of the “do you” phrasing with “why” and moving the focus away from the self, the result will be a bit more effective:
Draft: Do you watch the Superbowl?
Revised: Why do people watch the Superbowl?Why should people watch the Superbowl?Why do you watch the Superbowl?
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Hi Mindy–We pose an initial question, usually in the simplest form we can ask it, mostly to catch students’ attention. Once you click into each post, however, you’ll see that the headline question gets much more nuanced. We often follow up with five or six relat...