"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." - from Madeleine L'Engle's Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech

Monday, October 28, 2013

Inquiry Groups: Final Synthesis Page

Choose a quotation that supports your inquiry question: Should your text be removed from the middle school library? Why/why not?

Share and discuss the quotation in groups. Then, individually create a synthesis page to "unpack" the quotation. Include answers to the following:

  1. What does the author want you to know? Describe who is speaking and what the context is. Summarize what is happening in that part of the text.
  2. What does this part of the text make you think, feel, and wonder? Did you find yourself resisting this part? Did it make you uncomfortable? Why?
  3. Why might this be seen as "objectionable"? To whom?
  4. How can you validate or defend this part of the text? What positive value does it have?
  5. What connections can you make to other parts of the text, other texts, your self, and the world?
  6. What new assertions or realizations have you developed?

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