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 * What is an essential question? ** Questions that probe for deeper meaning, set the stage for further questioning, foster the development of critical thinking skills, and higher order capabilities such as problem-solving and understanding complex systems.

¥ Essential questions spark our curiosity and sense of wonder. They derive from some deep wish to understand some thing which matters to us. ¥ Answers to essential questions cannot always be found. They must be invented. It is something like cooking a great meal. You must construct your own answers and make your own meaning from the information you have gathered. Essential questions create insight. ¥ Answering such questions may take a lifetime, and even then, the answers may only be tentative ones. ¥ An essential question is always poised at the boundary of the known and the unknown. While permitting fruitful exploration of what others before us have learned and discovered, attempts to answer an essential question open up mysteries that successively reveal themselves the more we come to "know".

Casey's Socratic Seminar Review

Blake's Seminar response

@Bella's Socratic Seminar Response.

Alyssa's Socratic Seminar Response



1. Why is Canada so much less violent 2. Nature of American violence 3 [|Media's Effect] 4. Gun Control 5.School Shootings 6. Teen V. Adult perception of reality 7. Violent video games 8. Easy access to guns/ books/ information 9. Too much freedom? 10. Music 11. Welfare to work program -- parental supervision 12. Fear 13. Bullying- troubled youth