BRAINSTORMING  Brainstorm how to answer your essential question by creating supporting questions. Use the cues to develop questions that will help you focus your research. You don't need to use every cue. Your questions should change and develop as you research. You may need to rewrite your essential question to reflect the direction your research takes you. Essential Question: (What is your Question)   Memory Questions: Who What Where When Example: Who developed the planetary model of the atom?         Convergent thinking questions: How Why In what ways Example: Why was Richard III considered an evil king?         Divergent thinking questions: Imagine Suppose Predict If...Then... Example: How might life in the year 2100 differ from today?         Evaluative thinking questions: Defend Judge Justify Example: What do you thing of capital punishment for drug dealers?         Based on Ciardiello, Angela (1998). "Did you ask a good question today? Alternative cognitive and metacognitive strategies." Journal of adolescent & Adult Literacy. 42.210-219.