Question Master Questions - Week 3

Step 1 (Obvious Information):
- What does Billie Jo like most? (Kamari)
-What does Miss Freeland look like? What does Ms. Freeland call Billie Jo? (Malik)
-How does Billie Jo look? Who is the main character? (Donnell)
-What do Billi Jo like?  How do billi Jo look?  What is billJo frovite thing? (Nyrissa)

Step 2 (Key Detail):
-When is Billie Jo going to move out of the dust? (Kamari)
-Is Billie Jo still in school? Was Billie Jo's dad born in the dust bowl? (Malik)
-How did Billie Jo's mom die? (Donnell)
-What happened to billi Jo Mother? How did her brother die? (Nyrissa)

Step 3 (Stated Relationships):
-Who does Billie Jo look up to? (Kamari)
-If Miss Freeland is her ma at school why can't she bring to the house with her father?  What is the relationship between Billie Jo and her father? (Malik)
-How is Billie Jo's relationship with her father? (Donnell)
-Who does billie Jo become friend with in the dust bowl? (Nyrissa)

Step 4 (Connect Some Dots):
-Why does Billie Jo keep thinking about her mom? (Kamari)
-Why does Billie Jo want to be like her mom? (Malik)
-Why didn't Billie Jo go to school? Why did Billie Jo stick her face into the fog? (Donnell)
-When does the dust bowl stop.  Why does billie Jo still think about lily and lizzie. (Nyrissa)

Step 5 (Connect Lots of Dots):
-What job will Billie Jo get when she grows up? (Kamari)
-What are the 3 biggest ways Billie Jo changed over the course of the story? (Malik)
-How does Billie Jo change throughout the course of the story? Who is responsible for her changes?(Donnell)
-How did billie Jo change since her ma died. (Nyrissa)

Step 6 (Walking in the Author's Shoes):
-What is Karen Hesse trying to explane to us? (Kamari)
- (no response) (Malik)
-What message is Karen Hesse trying to send?  What are the best ways to handle anger? (Donnell)
-What message is Karen Hesse telling me about billie Jo's family and the dust bowl? (Nyrissa)

Step 7 (Reading like a Writer):
-Is Karen Hesse in love with poetry? (Kamari)
-Has she visited the Dust Bowl (Malik)
-What symbols does Karen Hesse include in the story about anger? (Donnell)
-How does Karen Hesse make her story better by using similes and alliteration? (Nyrissa)

Seminar questions about guiding questions:
-Who does Billie Jo look up to? (Kamari)
Malik: At first, she looked up to her mom before she died because that was the only woman in the house and when she grows up she wants to be like her mom.
DQ: ANd I think before Harold P. Nye died she probably looked up to him because he liked Billie Jo alot.
Demarrion: I think she looked up to herself because she be acting tough alot.
NYrissa: I agree with Demarrion and I sorta agree with Malik, but the reason I agree with Demarrion because in the book she hasn't really said anything positive about her mom

-Why does Billie Jo want to be like her mom? (Malik)
Omar: I think because her mom knew how to play piano and she wants to play piano.
Anyah: I agree.
Kamari: Didn't her mom ban her from playing the piano before she died.
Anyah: Not ban her, but remember in the book she asked her mom so she could say yes.
Malik: It says she didn't want her to play piano because she'd miss school so she just couldn't play during the week.
Me: synthesize ambivalent relationship between Billie Jo, searches for other reason...
Donnell: I think she wanted to be like her mom because she didn't know her dad that well
Dameko: I think she wanted to be her mom because she had bigger dreams and Billie Jo wants to leave the farm too.
Omar and Demarrion argue that she wants to be like her mom because her father's personality is abhorrent.
Me: I think she wants to hold on to her mom and remember her through the traits she shares with her.