LESSON PLAN Ref: 6 of 7 Course Ref: 2 of 12

Lesson 6: Recognizing the Reciprocal Relationship of Questioning in Writing and Reading

Subject / Course: English Language Arts/ English 10

Topic: Questioning in writing

Lesson Title: Recognizing the Reciprocal Relationship of Questioning in

Writing and Reading

Level: Grades 8-11

Lesson Duration: 2 hours

Learning Environment and Technology Utilized:

This lesson is to be executed in an offline, face-to-face, environment.

Lesson Objectives/ Curricular Competencies:

Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual,

and multimodal texts; guide inquiry; and extend thinking (ELA: New Media 10)
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful
literary, imaginative, and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
(ELA: Composition 10)
Reflect on, assess, and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact
according to purpose, audience, and message (ELA: Composition 10)

Summary of Tasks / Actions:

Recognizing the Reciprocal Relationship of Questioning in Writing and Reading. Offline

In this exercise students are exposed to the relationship between good writing and good
questions: good writing is a product of asking good questions.
The students work backwards, from an essay, to find the question that was responsible
for the thesis statement (usually from the four higher levels of the taxonomy). They then
find all the questions that were the basis for each topic sentence in the essay. After this
they find the questions that had to be explored to support the topic sentence. Then they
ask the questions that are implied in the conclusion to the essay. Again, an example is
provided for the students (See Ill Take a Cat, Guiding Questions for Ill Take a Cat
and Moving my Curfew at the end of this unit)

Materials / Equipment:

The materials for this lesson are provided at the end of the unit, see: Ill Take a Cat, Guiding
Questions for Ill Take a Cat and Moving my Curfew