HOW TO WRITE A BOB QUESTION 1 ALL QUESTIONS

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How to Write a B

How to Write a B.O.B. Question

All questions begin “In which book…..”.

B.O.B. questions should be specific to a certain book- the question must match the book! For example for “City of Ember” the question “In which book is there a girl with a sister,” is too broad. There could be several books where a girl has a sister.

You can not use proper names (people, places, any characters including animals) or any part of the title of the book. For example for “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH” the question “In which book does Mrs. Frisby receive help from some rats,” is too obvious because of the use of the Mrs. Frisby’s name.

You can use the setting and general descriptions of characters, just NOT specific names. For example the question “In which book does a girl live in an underground city,” is allowable because it does not use a character name or the name of the city.

You can use passages, or quotes, taken right out of the book. For example, for the book “Everything on a Waffle”, you could write a question like this:

In which book would you find the following passage:

“I was(grateful), not just for their return but for their absence too, and where it had taken me and who I had met there. I would never go home again in quite the same way.”

You can write thinking questions or direct comprehension questions. A direct comprehension question is like the example given above- it is just information taken straight out of the book. A thinking question would not be a question that is taken straight from the book, but rather a question where the reader has to think about the events in the book and use reasoning to decide on their answer. For example, for “Everything on a Waffle” the question, “In which book does each chapter with a recipe?” would be easily answered from the text of the book, but this question “In which book does a girl discover she doesn’t need to travel the world to learn about life?” is a thinking question, it cannot be found in the text of the book, but has to be thought about.

Good vs. Bad Questions

Remembering the rules above for writing good questions, mark each question below if you think it is a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ question.

________ In what book does a mouse with a shining needle rescue a princess from a dungeon where she is being held by a rat named Roscuro?

_______ In what book does red thread symbolize both a tragedy and a triumph in the life of a very small mouse?

_______ In what book does the main character lose his job because he is no good at plundering and looting?

______ In what book does the landlady's daughter, Nina DelFresno, help the main character look for employment each day only to find out that he is not cut out for whatever occupation they are pursuing that day?

______ In what book do we learn about a captive named Simon Figley who turns into an octopus and then saves one of his captors named Stovehouse from the jaws of a shark?

______ In what book does the main character earn his keep by acquainting everyone he meets with the colorful circumstances that keep him from pursuing various careers?

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