Interpretive Questions
Purpose- Dig deeper into text
- Explore author’s intent
- Dialogue about underlying ideas
- Discover personal meaning
- More than one possible answer
- Answers supportable from the text
- Leads us to consider what the author intended us to think about
- Leads us to think deeper about the meaning of the text
- Answers require the development of a thesis and support of that thesis with clear thinking and textual evidence
In-class exercise – brainstorm a list of interpretive questions for the first four chapters of Pride and Prejudice.
posted by Jeffrey @ Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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