Our next P4C session will be based around an animated short called Veni Vidi Vici: click on the title to watch it. When I watched, I realised that there are lots of possible themes that you might want to discuss. Please put your questions into the comment box below, so that you can all exercise your Pupil Voice by voting on the one you would like to use in our next P4C lesson.
Remember, the best questions are open-ended, because they present the opportunity to have much deeper, more wide ranging conversations than closed questions.
I have a question:
How old was the small soldier?
Gosh Pippa, you’re quick off the mark! Can you think of a wider question that we could discuss? I’m thinking about the sort of question that is inspired by the video, but ends up with everyone thinking about the ‘big ideas’ that stem from the original question.
Ok!
Is the small soldier an adult or a child?
How did he end up there if he is small and clumsy?
What made the small soldier want to be part of the training course?
What made the person in charge change his mind very quickly about the small soldier?
I have another question: what made the small soldier not give up?
Is there a problem with the soldier being small?
Did the other soldiers dislike him because he was small?
Why did he not try himself?
Does he deserve to be praised?
Did he have to cheat?
I loved the video by the way
I have got one more question:
Is he good or bad?
Why is he allowed in the camp when he is a child??
He could just be short.
Why is he so keen to join the Roman army?
I think that this is a very nice mini movie because the weak soldier was stuck at the beginning and then he managed to use his brain ad win.
How did he use his brain? Think about the answer to this question and use it to try to come up with an open question that we could discuss in our P4C session.
I have a some questions about the video:
did the small soldier earn his position at the end as he never did anything ?
What did the other soldiers think of the smaller one?
How come he is allowed in the Roman army?
It was really funny, the way that at the beginning the soldier was getting slightly bullied at but at the end he used his sly brain to make it through all of the drills shows that being clever is stronger than being muscular and big!
Try to think of an open question so that we can tease out the discussion that you have started in your comment…
Why does he always fail when he does all his training to be a Roman warrior?
My questions:
Did the small man choose to do that training?
If he did, what was his reason?
Why did the others annoy him just because he was small?
what does it matter if you are small or not?
Punctuation!
Why is he so determind?
How old is he?
I can’t imagine that this would lead to a robust P4C discussion…
Why does he have to get bullied allot when he is just a boy?
I think the lesson in this story is: don’t judge a book by it’s cover.
How could you turn this statement in to a comment that we could discuss?
Do you think he is clever?
Why do people have to bully people when there smaller than them?
He is so young how would he be able to do this?