Investigator

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As investigator, your job is to ask and answer questions. You will need to have at least one comment approved for this post in which you ask at least three great, higher-level questions. For each question you ask, you need to provide your own answer/opinion. The answer needs to include evidence from the text to support your opinion. If the answer to your question is stated directly in the text, your question is too easy, and so it will not be posted. Each question is really more like a paragraph with your explanation of the answer you think is correct. That means that this post requires three big, fat, juicy paragraphs! Plus, you need to complete the second part of the directions.

You will also need to answer one question each from at least three different people. Your answers should definitely use evidence from the text. Make sure to let the group know where your evidence comes from by writing the page and paragraph number. Your responses require multiple sentences. Each response will be a separate comment - one big, fat, juicy paragraph for each answer!

Some of you have asked for some help with analysis and synthesis level questions. Here is a short list to get you started...

* What change would you make to solve _____?
* How would you improve _______?
* What might happen if _____?
* Can you elaborate on the reason for _____?
* Can you propose an alternative idea for _____?
* Can you invent _____?
* How would you adapt_____ to create a different _____?
* How would you change or modify the plot?
* Suppose you could _____. What would you do?
* How would you test _____?
* What do you predict will happen if _____?
* Why do you think _____?
* What are the features of _____?
* How is ____ related to _____?
* What is the character's motive for _____?
* What inference can you make from _____?
* What evidence can you find for _____?
* What is the relationship between _____ and _____?
* What ideas might justify the opinion that _____?

Thank you in advance for your hard work,
~Ms. Vander Velde