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Essential Questions

Essential Questions. AP Language. Learning is really all about the questions we ask. What is an essential question ?.

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Essential Questions

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  1. Essential Questions AP Language

  2. Learning is really all about the questions we ask.

  3. What is an essential question? • Wiggins and McTighe define essential questions as “questions that are not answerable with finality in a brief sentence… Their aim is to stimulate thought, to provoke inquiry, and to spark more questions — including thoughtful student questions — not just pat answers” (106). 

  4. Tenants of EQs • Essential questions are “important questions that recur throughout all our lives.”  They are “broad in scope and timeless by nature.” • Essential questions  refer to “core ideas and inquiries within a discipline.”  They “point to the core of big ideas in a subject and to the frontiers of technical knowledge.  They are historically important and alive in the field.” • Essential questions help scholars “effectively inquire and make sense of important but complicated ideas, knowledge, and know-how — a bridge to findings that experts may believe are settled but learners do not yet grasp or see as valuable.” • Essential questions “will most engage a specific and diverse set of learners.”  They “hook and hold the attention” of a specific group of learners (108-109)

  5. Sample EQs • What do we mean by the word ‘culture?’ • How does cultural assimilation impact culture and identity? • How do differences in culture breed conflict and misunderstanding? • What kind of responsibilities or debts to individuals owe their respective communities, local or global?

  6. Write Your Own • Now you should write FIVE to TEN essential questions you hope to answer about your synthesis topic area. • These will help to focus your reading and your discussions.

  7. Essential question information fromWiggins, Grant, and Jay McTighe. Understanding by Design. Expanded 2nd Edition. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2005.

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