Level One Questions: Are questions that have one answer and can always be found in the text. Defining Describing Identifying Listing Naming Observing Reciting Scanning

Defining What is the definition of lunar eclipse?

List Name three poems written by Robert Frost:

Identifying Which states seceded from the Union to form the confederacy?

Recitation How does The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost begin?

Level Two Questions: Analyzing Comparing Contrasting Grouping Inferring Sequencing Synthesizing Are questions that have more than one answer. The answer is not in the text You must analyze the text.

Contrast In The Bet, how do the lawyer and the banker differ in their attitudes toward capital punishment?

Analysis In Native Son, how does Bigger Thomas’ violence against his gang members reveal a deeply rooted insecurity and fear of people?

Synthesis How does the term “manifest destiny” capture the essence of western expansion in the United States?

Inference If the moon is full August 17, July 18, and June 19, when will it be full in April?

Level Three Questions Applying a principle Evaluating Hypothesizing Imagining Judging Predicting Speculating Are “Imagine” questions. The answer is not in the text. They force you to think about and idea or issue.

Applying a Principle Using the principle of communicative property, how can we find out the number of apple trees in an orchard having 15 rows, 5 trees each?

Judging Which of the characters in Great Expectations suffered the most?

Speculating In The Catcher in the Rye how might Phoebe, years later, describe Holden to her children?

Imagining Imagine you were Maria in The Power of One how would you feel about the things P.K. was talking about at first? What would you say to your father? What would you do?

Predicting After reading the first chapter of The Outsiders, what do you predict will happen to Ponyboy and his friends?