QUESTIONING, CONTENT, AND CREATIVE WRITING THROUGH CUBING
TELL ABOUT IT
What do you see?
What do you smell?
What do you hear?
What do you feel?
What do you taste?
DESCRIBE IT
Explain some aspect of it?
Describe what you observe.
Restate the general idea and a few specifics in your own words.
UTILIZE IT
How is it made or how does it come about?
What are the components and how do they function?
What is it comprised (made up) of?
What feelings do you have about it?
ANALYZE IT
What else do you think of?
What people does it remind you of and why?
What places do you think of and why?
What is it similar to?
What is it different from?
EVALUATE IT
Give good reason why you feel it is significant.
Explain why it is the best.
Give silly reasons why you feel it is significant.
Explain why it is the best.
Give good reasons why you feel it is not significant.
Explain why it is not the best.
Give silly reasons why you feel it is not significant.
Explain why it is not the best.
SYNTHESIZE IT
What else can you do with it?
How can it be used in other areas of life?
What would happen if you didn’t have it?
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CUBING YOU
1. TELL ABOUT YOU:
What is a fact about you?
What is one of your strengths?
2. DESCRIBE YOU:
Describe yourself by explaining something really important to you.
Describe something you really like to do.
3. SHOW YOU:
Show how you do something that you do well.
Show how you do something you feel is very important in life.
4. ANALYZE YOU:
What people, animals, or places are you similar to? Different from?
What is something that is a strength of yours that did not used to be a strength?
5. EVALUATE YOU:
What do you do really well? Why are you so good at that?
What impact did you have on other lives as a result of this strength you gained?
6. SYNTHESIZE YOU:
Think of someone you helped do something. Predict what might have happened if you
weren’t there to help?
Think of the impact you had on other lives from the strength you gained and predict what
might have happened had you not gained that strength?
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CUBING
TELL ABOUT IT
DESCRIBE IT
UTILIZE IT
ANALYZE IT
EVALUATE IT
SYNTHESIZE IT
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