---
title: "11.15.07"
date: 2007-11-15
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/11/15/111507/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 11.15.07

Core 1:

- Separate and Discuss-on: Split into your 4 categories of what you believe is the most important factor for determining success in life and discuss your answers to the question.
- In your groups, fill out your first attempt at the Issue Analysis Form to determine just how well grounded your opinions are.
- What else would you need in order to debate these topics?
- Switching gears: How have the 30-minute-expert blogging sessions enabled you to understand new topics for debate? What more would you need in order to crystallize your opinions about censorship and copyright?
- Extensions: Read your Multi-cultural novel.

Core 2:

- Quiz-on: Why couldn’t Cassie understand Big Ma’s actions in Strawberry after Mr. Simms pushed her into the road? (Hint: Cassie’s mother had to explain them to her.)
- Where is the line in the sand that no just person should cross?

- [aa7zb3y4](http://academyofdiscovery.com/aa7zb3y4/?p=16)

- Read Chapter 7:
- What is a [racial ally?](https://edgenet.edgewood.edu/whiteprivilege/being%20a%20strong%20white%20ally.htm)
- How can you be a strong racial ally to others?
- How are the characters strong racial allies for one another?

- Extension: Finish Chapter 7 for Friday. Core 3:

- Design-on: How would you need to set up the room in order for it to look like a court room? What objects would you need in the room for it to be more official?
- Put one design into action.
- Read through the trial as if a court case were actually being carried out.

- How is this case a farce? (What is it making fun of?)
- Is the court fair to Shylock?
- How do the words that the “lawyers” use trick Shylock or the rest of the court?

- Extensions:
- Write out how you believe the trial would change in a more modern setting.

Core 4:

- Reflect-on: How did using the picture book enhance your understanding of the pied piper and of the questions that went with it?
- Share a few of your responses from the [blogs](http://grazr.com/data/bhwilkoff/google-reader-subscriptions.xml).
- Which of these questions are debatable?  How do you frame a question so that it is more debatable.

- How is this more debatable: “Solved: The mayor should have paid the Piper.”
- Extension:  Write out how you believe a debate should be organized and run.

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