Generating questions

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Nuance Academy: Infinitive clause

After today I should be able to: write a sentence with an infinitive clause and generate open ended questions.

Reading: The Odyssey, pages 1-10

Agenda:

1. Write 10 infinitive clauses.
1. Start with an infinitive clause. An infinitive clause tells why the action of the verb occurs. Start with the infinitive clause and follow it with an independent clause.
1. Loose sentence:
1. Mr. White carefully planned the stages of his essay, and then he wrote it.
2. Infinitive clause
1. To write a good essay, Mr. White needed to plan carefully.
2. Think about a goal that the subject has and then write what they need to do to achieve that goal.
1. Goal: to write a good essay
2. Action: Mr. White needed to plan carefully
2. Notice and Note group work
1. With your group, find examples of the sign post you were assigned. Include the book and line number and sentence about what you noticed.
2. Add your signposts to this Padlet wall.
3. Generating good questions
1. Ask as many questions as you can
2. Do not stop to judge, discuss, or answer any questions
3. Write down every question exactly as it was stated
4. Change any statements into questions
5. Close ended or open ended (C or O)
6. Identify whether the open ended questions could be answered easily or would take a while to discuss? Would the answer require explanation, but the explanation would be short or not take much time.
4. Odyssey Hyperdoc. Click on this link to get the instructions on how to complete the assignment. You can find the assignment in Google Classroom.

Homework:

1. Ten infinitive clauses
2. Membean