---
title: "11.16.07"
date: 2007-11-16
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/11/16/111607/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 11.16.07

Core 1

- Write-on: Why do libraries matter?
- Read the two contrasting articles on censorship in libraries.

- What facts do these two articles use in order to prove their sides of the issue?
- How are these articles both like and dislike a formal debate?
- Based upon the information, what is the biggest problem with censorship?

- Extension: How is it possible to be better at going against what you personally believe in a debate than going for it. Core 2:

- Share-on: Read your racial ally piece to a neighbor and then discuss if this Mr. Morrison’s story is in any way unique (rare).
- Share out your racial ally pieces.
- Finish 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 Monday. Core 3:

- Write-on: Why does Portia lead Shylock along, making him believe that he can have his bond, if all the time she knows that it is against the law to hurt a Venetian.
- Continue reading 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?)

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

Core 4:

- Share-on: See diagrams on the document camera.
- Test the most popular form out with “Solved: They mayor should have paid the Piper.”
- What can we do differently/better next time?
- Extensions:  Write out what kind of debate you believe are worth having.

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