Question and Answer Relationship (QAR)
Created by Raphael 1982,1984

 

Question-Answer Relationships is a way to help students realize that the answers they seek are related to the type of question that is asked; it encourages them to be strategic about their search for answers based on an awareness of what different types of questions look for. It is a strategy that equips students to tackle questions effectively by teaching them to recognize different types of questions. There are 2 types of questions Text Based and Knowledge Based and they each have two components.

 

Text Based Questions:
Right There: questions that are formulated with words taken right from the text. The answer is usually found in the same sentence.
Think and Search: questions that ask students to think about the information they read and to search throughout the entire passage to find information.

Knowledge Based Questions:
Author and You: The answer is not in the text, but you still need information that the author has given you, combined with what you already know, in order to respond to this type of question.
On my Own: The answer is not in the text and can be based on the student’s background knowledge. These types of question do not require reading the text at all.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott


The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on December 1, 1955. That was the day when the blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being relegated to the back when a white boarded. It was not, however, the day that the movement to desegregate the buses started. Perhaps the movement started on the day in 1943 when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks paid her bus fare and then watched the bus drive off as she tried to re-enter through the rear door, as the driver had told her to do. Perhaps the movement started on the day in 1949 when a black professor Jo Ann Robinson absentmindedly sat at the front of a nearly empty bus, then ran off in tears when the bus driver screamed at her for doing so. Perhaps the movement started on the day in the early 1950s when a black pastor named Vernon Johns tried to get other blacks to leave a bus in protest after he was forced to give up his seat to a white man, only to have them tell him, "You ought to knowed better." The story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is often told as a simple, happy tale of the "little people" triumphing over the seemingly insurmountable forces of evil. The truth is a little less romantic and a little more complex.

  1. Right There: When did the boycott officially start?
  2. Think & Search: What are the other instances that could have triggered the movement?
  3. Author & You: What were some of the characteristics of the people who took a stand against inequality?
  4. On My Own: Consider a time when you were faced with a decision to stand for what you believed in?

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