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  Sarah Brown W.: The provocateur group is going to work to devise several questions

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  Helping Students Write Text-Dependent Questions Transcript
  Sarah Brown W.: The provocateur group is going to work to devise several questions pretty quickly, but I am going to ask each group to submit at least one question that you think is important to your author and to the story.At the beginning of the lesson, I did a mini lesson on how to use text from the story in order to write this question.I want to kind of give you a formula. You can start by saying something like, "In O'Conner, she ... " and then we've got an active verb. What are some of our good verbs?
  Speaker 2: Implies.
  Sarah Brown W.: Implies.
  Speaker 2: Presents.
  Sarah Brown W.: Presents.
  Speaker 2: Brings out.
  Sarah Brown W.: Brings out.
  Speaker 3: Proves.
  Sarah Brown W.: Proves. So, we've got a good verb, and then you're going to say what that is. You can also use something more specific here. "In 'Old Man', Marquez writes." So, implicit in your question is a quote from the text. And then you have what he writes, and then you form your question after that. If you're not using a specific quote, you can also use a paraphrase. In Jimi Hendrix, you could say something about the character, right? The father ... you can kind of paraphrase something very specific that happens, and then you move to your question from there.
  Speaker 4: In the misfit, he says, "Jesus has thrown everything off balance. Do you think that that's a good thing?"
  Speaker 5: Lexi presents the conflict of view points in the lines, "Only the good die young," how does this conflict outline morality and heroism?
  Sarah Brown W.: As you start to hone this skill, you don't need to follow the formula anymore, you'll be able to craft your own questions.

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