---
title: "11.28.07"
date: 2007-11-28
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/11/28/112807/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 11.28.07

Core 1:

- Write-on: What is the benefit of defending a position you do not personally believe in within a formal debate?
- Choose-on: On a notecard, please write your top 3 choices of the following debate topics (and proposition or opposition) you would be most interested in being a part of. Remember, do not only choose sides that you agree with.
- Exploring refutation:

- What are the essential parts of direct refutation?
- How does the ARE format help refutation?

- Extensions:
- Start to gather resources for your topic.

Core 2:

- Quiz-on: How did the school board members
know to come in to Mrs. Logan’s classroom and look at the pasted-over
front pages of the textbooks?
- Discuss-On: Who should decide what gets taught in schools?
- Discuss Chapter 8:  What is the worst type of coercion displayed so far?
- Why does T.J. “turn” on the Logans?

- Extensions:

- Read Chapter 9 for Friday.

Core 3:

- Write-on: How would you tell a life story through images? What are the moments that you would capture?
- Take graphical notes on [Art Spiegelman’s 1991 interview:](http://wiredforbooks.org/artspiegelman/)

- The Book
- The Genre (Graphic Novels/Memoir)
- The 1940’s
- The story of Art Spiegelman’s family

- [What is a Graphic Novel?](http://artbomb.net/comics/introgn.jsp) And why is it the best way to express a time of absolute tragedy, chaos, and change?
- Extension:
- Ponder: How did the world of Merchant of Venice turn into the world of World War II?

Core 4:

- 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?

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