Question-based learning is a type of inquiry where the learner is guided by forming and refining a guiding question (or guiding questions).
This sounds close to ‘essential questions,’ which are also used to guide learning. However, unlike essential questions, guiding questions are refined and improved during the learning process (whether a single activity or over the course of a project, etc.)
The Hobbit is about Bilbo’s maturation from a ‘do-nothing’ to a courageous adventurer who risks everything for the benefit of others.
Students needed to see what a ‘quality’ reading response looked like. Once these questions were demystified a bit, it was all downhill.
Literary Terms and Devices Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, in which the name of the central character, Pilgrim, epitomizes the book’s…
