11.27.07

Core 1:

1. Vote-on: Which of the following debate topics will be the student selected debate?

• Solved: New Orleans should be relocated.
• Solved: The internet is a bad influence on children.
• Solved: Video games should be considered a sport.
• Solved: Everyone should know how to swim.
• Solved: The government should aggressively fund alternative forms of energy.

• Create arguments by stating your assertion, reasoning and evidence in one paragraph on your blog (similar to the examples from the handout yesterday).

Core 2:

1. Blog-on: Is it better to be recognized for doing something good (changing people’s ideas on race/gender) or to go unrecognized? Why?
2. Calling attention to your cause:

• ReacTee
• Blogging and Linking
• Other ideas?

• Finish your rough draft of your Academy Authentic for Friday (share with others, not me)
• Work on your Social Action Plan

• Work on your Academy Authentic

Core 3:

1. Share-on: Share what lesson, moral, or idea you learned from reading MOV with at least 2 other people.
2. Take a look at “Why should students come to class?” and the collaborative discussion going on with our old friends from Wallingford, CT.
3. Work on the computers for two purposes:

• Finish your rough draft of your Academy Authentic for Friday (share with others, not me)
• Comment/Build upon the Wallingford-based debate on virtual classes/schools

• Work on your Academy Authentic

Core 4:

1. Blog-on: What is freedom of expression and why is it important to our ever day lives?
2. A 30-minute-expert blogging session on global censorship:
1. Mr Mayo’s Delicious Account on Free Press
   • Resources
   • Facts
   • Opinions
3. Extensions:

• Finish your 30-minute-expert blogging session and post it to your blog in the correct format.

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