A+Thousand+Splendid+Suns

// A Thousand Splendid Suns //  Assignment:  Create **1 ****open-ended ** (see below for details) discussion question for //A Thousand Splendid Suns // for your classmates to respond to.

Details:
Create your discussion question by typing your name in the //Subject // box and your question in the //Message // box. Your question MUST be different from other questions posted (and from the Socratic Seminar questions already given to you), which means you must read all previously posted questions before posting your own. This also means the longer you procrastinate, the more difficult the assignment may be for you. If your question is too similar to one posted before yours, you will lose points, so be original!

**OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS: ** An open-ended question is designed to elicit a full, meaningful response to the literature. It is the opposite of a //closed-ended question //, which encourages a short or single-word answer. Open-ended questions also tend to be //more objective // and //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">less leading // than closed-ended questions. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Open-ended questions are sometimes not actual questions at all, but interrogative statements beginning with words such as "Discuss...." <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">An open-ended question can NOT be answered with a simple "Yes," "No," or other very simple answers.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">EXAMPLES: **
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Does Rasheed treat the children differently because of their genders? Do you soften towards his character because of the way he treats Zalmar? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Open-Ended: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Discuss the difference in the way Rasheed treats the children and the roots of this treatment. Does this, and if so discuss, add another dimension to his character?
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Close-Ended: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Close-Ended: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Does Mariam get what she deserves for murdering a man and taking Zalmar's father from him? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Open-Ended: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Discuss the justice or injustice of Mariam's death sentence.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Click on this link to see some example open-ended questions used on past Advanced Placement Exams; obviously your question will not focus on choosing any work of literature, but __A Thousand Splendid Suns__ specifically: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Sample AP Exam open-ended questions]

Socratic Seminar Questions (DO NOT REPEAT!):