5th Period Discussion

Your Task:

Read the two articles on Victorian poverty and Charles Dickens and create 3 questions using the following format:
Level 1 question - A reading comprehension, question. This question can be answered with the article or with a dictionary and has a right or wrong answer. Possible question stems: Who? What? Where? When?
Level 2 question - An inference based question. This question requires the answerer to read between the lines. Possible question stems: Explain, Compare, Analyze
Level 3 question - A discussion question - This question should be inspired by the documents and should prompt discussion in your classmates. There will not be a right or wrong answer. Possible question stems: Evaluate, Speculate, Hypothesize


Then read the article from the AJC and examine the poverty statistics for present day America and answer the following:
1. Which statistics did you find the most surprising? Why?
2. What do you think Charles Dickens would say about poverty in the United States if he were alive today? Why?

Post your 3 questions and your 2 answers in a reply to this post. Then choose one more group's leveled questions to reply to.