Teaching + Learning

In this lesson snapshot, a high school ESL 4 class delves into factory farming, sustainability, and the food industry through Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma. They use the QFT twice throughout the unit; once as a pre-reading exercise and later to unpack two juxtaposed primary sources images of farming then and now, armed with knowledge from the book.

Thanks to a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program, RQI collaborated with seven classroom teachers to develop a series of lesson snapshots that demonstrate how the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) can be used for primary source learning.