Hatchet Chapters 9-11 and Costa's Levels of Thinking

Today's Goal: Read Hatchet Chapter 9-11. Practice Costa's Levels of Questioning

The Plan:

1. Read independent reading!
2. Read chapters 9-10 of Hatchet
3. Chapter 11?
   What gets repeated in this chapter? What does the author reveal about Brian when he talks about "change"?
4. Create discussion questions using Costa's Levels of Thinking (Here's the form. Complete on your own if you're absent)

Reminders/Homework:

• READ!
• Turn in Hatchet Questions on Google Classroom
• Capitalization 2: Places and Family Titles
• No Red Ink assignment due Friday, December 14 at 6pm
• make sure to "Sign in with Google"
• Submit Revision Requests for assignments you would like me to (potentially) update scores for. (See list at bottom of post)

While you read chapter 11: 

• What sentence is repeated throughout chapter 11?
• What is the Gary Paulson’s purpose for repeating this phrase?
• What does the description of “change” in this chapter tell you about Brian’s character?

What level of thinking do these questions come from?

Costa's Level's of Thinking and Discussion Questions

Did you know there are different levels of thinking? You might have heard a teacher say "you have to dig deeper" or "I need you to be thoughtful or add to the conversation." What they're really saying is that we have to go beyond the first level of thinking.

There are a bunch of psychologist dudes that have created frameworks for thinking, but we're going to look at Costa's.

Costa says there are basically three levels:

1. Gathering information
2. Processing information
3. Applying information

You can also think of it this way:

1. knowing facts
2. understanding ideas
3. being able to use those ideas and facts to create new things

So here's your challenge today. I don't want to know if you can tell me everything that happened in Chapter 9 and 10 today, because I think you can do that already.

Instead, I want you to become the discussion director. If you were me, what are the questions you would ask? Why is that a question you would ask? How does it relate to the story you are reading?

The trick is that it needs to be worth discussing. We're going to talk about all the questions, so make sure you're proud of it!

FILL OUT THIS FORM WITH YOUR PARTNER (on your own if you're absent)