The Unanswered Question

Figuring out well-thought questions to ask my teacher back home in California was arduous because there are a variety of questions to choose from. Scott Dufrense, a well-respected teacher back in high school, had just received his position as a teacher a couple years ago. It was his 3rd year going in as a Math teacher by the time I graduated. Lutheran High School wasn’t a well populated school. The school had nearly 500 students so it wasn’t difficult for him to fit in and connect with the…

always been correctly understood. The question of ‘What is justice’ is one that causes people to challenge their beliefs and their knowledge. In The Republic, by Plato, Socrates questions many things, including the possible definition of justice. Another character named Thrasymachus joins the conversation to present a different view of justice from the one Socrates is contemplating. The main focus of these two character’s discussion is to answer the question of who justice genuinely benefits,…

process which looked very professional. I was also impressed with how smoothly she transitioned from asking small talk questions to questions that actually pertained to his health. That way it made it seem like they were still just having an everyday, easy going conversation and not an interrogation. II. During the assessment portion of the process, I was surprised how many questions were asked that didn’t pertain directly to the teeth or mouth. She asked if…

authors. Then, I guided him through his Socratic Seminar worksheet to complete the assigned homework, which was creating questions that he would ask his group mates the following day. I provided Ville with a variety of sentence frames to help guide him through the creating of the questions. While he struggled to think of questions for each category, I helped by reminding him of questions that he had while he was reading the text during our Think Aloud reading. All in all, I provided Ville with a…

To test children 's ability to see other people’s intentions and use perspective taking a story is told to the child and then a series of questions asked. This test is to see what stage of development children are in according to Piaget’s theories of cognitive development. This test was completed on a five year old, kindergarten girl at Tye River Elementary School. The first task completed was telling a story about girl named Holly and her dilemma of either disobeying her father to help…

I tried to take notice to when he was losing interest. In the future, I would like to know other techniques to keep children at this age engaged in conversation for therapy sessions or interviews similar to this one. I feel that I asked questions that flowed together well; when Johnny talked about the difference between his favorite thing to do at home and his favorite thing to do at school, I used this as an opportunity to talk about his daily schedule. Also when Johnny talked about who…

David’s mother asked many questions to their children. However, David’s mother had asked more open ended questions to David, while Catherine tended to ask more close ended questions in her interaction with Nadia. Open ended questions are questions that do not evoke one or two words answer but with more information and detail (Lorina, 2015). To answer the open ended questions, children cannot simply response with “yes” or “no” (Lorina, 2015). Generally, open ended questions start with “Tell me”,…

romance, philosophy, and history. The multiple and overlaying genres fit in with an underlying theme whereby Fielding urges to the reader to vigorously question even the most basic of truths. When reading Tom Jones, the words of Voltaire came to mind: “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” () It is in the way Fielding asks his questions, however, by which he should be judged. Fielding employs self-deprecation, satire, and suggestive narrative order in order to demonstrate to…

were different. We also have whole group discussions where the teacher asks a question to ask about diversity or culture in the classroom and we have to participate by giving our own personal answers back. The most recent question he asked for one of these discussions was, “What are some appropriate ways in your class you could teach the students about different cultures and diversities?” The reason why he proposes questions like these for us as a class to discuss is because when it comes time…

understanding all the intense wording. Through the rhetorical reading notes, I learned to read with a purpose and to pick out the main idea, which also helped me with my summary. The last question on our rhetorical reading notes asks us to pick a word from each page that relates to the page’s main idea. I think that question helps me the most on rhetorical reading notes because it made me go page by page and recognize what the main point of each page was. Through that I better understood the…