Biblioscopic Dialogue 15 - Interpretive Question Exercise: Discuss Universal Idea Using Multiple Children's Stories
Literary Core Skill:
Compare various (children’s) titles with respect to a specific universal idea.
Resources: Story Chart; Socratic List (entire). Students will practice Biblioscopic Dialogue with accessible children’s stories in which themes are readily apparent. This allows them to focus on the skill of comparing the works of different thinkers with respect to a universal idea.
Elements of Fiction:
Assignment Type:
Interpretive Question Exercise
Description:
This worksheet asks student to write a question about the contributions of a series of children’s stories to a discussion of a universal idea and outline three distinct answers supportable by the texts.
Grading Rubric:
Equal parts credit for a) clean grammar/syntax/punctuation, b) plausibility, and c) reference to the texts. Paragraph- and page-length answers may also be graded on the 5-fold rubric.
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