Routine Student Questions

for Purposeful Learning

Nathan Buchholz and
David Sybers
Put yourself in these two soldiers shoes, what do you feel? Write a
sentence about how you would feel in this situation.

Stalingrad Afghanistan
 Why do we engage in long
drawn out wars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIYa94IBWbY
Why do you think that countries engage in long drawn
out wars that last for a long time?

Write a sentence about the reasons you think countries

get involved in long wars.
 What does a turning point
mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7rPIg7ZNQ8
Get into groups of four and come up with a definition of
a turning point.

When you are done write an answer to what a turning

point is on the board.
 Works Cited
Textbook - Fisher, D. and Frey, N. (2016). Improving
Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work.
Boston: Pearson.

Main source - Walker, J. (2011, February). Apocalypse on

the Volga. Military Heritage, 12(5), 28-37.

First Scholarly source - Wissing, D. A. (2016). Hopeless but

Optimistic : Journeying through America's Endless War in
Afghanistan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Second Scholarly source Shuttleworth, D. (2010). In

Schooling for Life: Community Education and Social
Enterprise (pp. 73-89). Toronto: Buffalo; London: University
of Toronto Press.