1. Great Novels Friday, August 28th
Bell work: Turn in completed parent letters and “Goals and Expectations” sheet to the class bin
Have out your completed homework from last night. (Annotations and your personal journals.)
*We will briefly talk together. Have a partner in mind for later. (Make a new friend.)

2. Three Levels of Questions
Using Cinderella as a model

3. Level 1: Recall
The answer is in the text; explicit, fact (fully and clearly expressed; leaving nothing implied)
This type of questions is very concrete and pertains only to the text.
Asks for facts about what has been heard or read.
Information is recalled in the exact manner/form it was heard
What were Cinderella's slippers made out of? How did Cinderella get to the ball?

4. Level 2: Analysis/Inference
The answer can be inferred from the text.
This type question, although more abstract than a Level One question, deals only with the text.
Information can be broken down into parts.
It involves examining in detail, analyzing motives or causes, making inferences, finding information to support generalizations or decision-making.
Questions combine information in a new way.
* * * WHY? * * *
Why does Cinderella's stepmother care whether or not she goes to the ball? Why did everything turn back the way it was except the glass slipper? Why don't the step sisters like Cinderella?

5. Level 3: Synthesis
The answer goes beyond the text and inquire into the value, importance and application of the information presented.
These questions ask that judgments be made from information.
They also give opinions about issues, judge the validity of ideas or other products and justify opinions and ideas.
Does a woman's salvation always lie with a man? What does it mean to live happily ever after? Does good always overcome evil?

6. For this weekend… Read and annotate Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist”
Create leveled questions for our Monday discussion. I will grade this discussion.
As a first question to consider…
How can we, as lovers of literature, relate the hunger artist to writers and/or readers?