1. The Question Formulation Technique
Getting ready for Performance Task 1 IRR
Team Presentation

2. Produce Questions: Self Portrait Between the Borderline of Mexico and the United States, 1932

3. Possible Themes to Explore:
Aesthetics
Belief
Communication
Courage
Culture
Democracy
Discovery
Discrimination
Diversity
Education
Environment
Evolution
Food
Freedom
Sustainability
Technology
Theory
Traditions
Transformation
Utopia
War
Wealth and Poverty
Work

4. Possible Themes to Explore:
Government
Health
Home
Identity
Immigration
Innovation
Intelligence
Justice
Language
Leisure
Liberty
Media
Modeling
Myth
Networks
Opportunity
Patterns
Peace
Perception
Place
Power
Protest
Representation
Revolution
Rights and Responsibilities
Social media
Space

5. In Groups: Determine themes that apply to painting.
Consider the theme/lenses/and perspectives
Now come up with questions:
For example:
Does gender affect our perception of the world?

6. In Groups: Lenses: Cultural and Social Artistic and Philosophical
Political and Historical
Environmental
Economic
Scientific
Futuristic
Ethical

7. Rules for Producing Questions
Ask as many questions as you can
Do not stop to discuss, judge or answer the questions
Write down every question exactly as it is stated
Change any statement into a question
What might be difficult about following these rules?

8. Producing the Questions
1. Follow the Rules for Producing Questions.
Ask as many questions as you can
Do not stop to discuss, judge or answer the questions
Write down every question exactly as it is stated
Change any statement into a question
2. Number your questions.

9. Improve Your Questions
Get your questions together. You might have these two kinds of questions on your list:
Close-ended questions-they can be answered with “yes” or “no” or with one word.
Open-ended questions-they require an explanation and cannot be answered with “yes” or “no” or with one word.
Identify closed-and open-ended questions.
Mark the closed-ended questions with a C and the open-ended questions with a O.

10. What are the advantages and disadvantages of open-ended and closed-ended questions?
Open-Ended Advantages
Open-Ended Disadvantages
Closed-Ended Advantages
Closed-Ended
Disadvant ages

11. Improve your Questions
Review your list of questions and change closed-ended question into open-ended.
Choose the three most important questions from your list.
Keep in mind the Question Focus.
Mark each priority question with an “X.”
Provide a rationale for your three questions.