Learning is Change

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.
  2. How do you search for good resources?
  3. Conduct your fourth and final 30-minute-expert blogging session on our chosen topic.
    • Create arguments by stating your assertion, reasoning and evidence in one paragraph on your blog (similar to the examples from the handout yesterday).
  4. Extensions: Finalize your 30-minute-expert session. Start to look back and decide which topic is right for you.

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?
  3. Work on the computers for two purposes:
    • Finish your rough draft of your Academy Authentic for Friday (share with others, not me)
    • Work on your Social Action Plan
  4. Extensions:
    • 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
  4. Extensions:
    • 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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11.26.07

Core 1:

  1. Write-on: If I told you that there were three elements of any good argument, what would they be called? Create a workable acronym for them as well.
  2. Use the resources at MiddleSchoolDebate.com to practice making Arguments.
    • Are the opinions you have been voicing in your 30-minute-expert sessions arguments?
    • Would the facts in your 30-minute-expert sessions fit into this type of structure?
  3. Extensions:

Core 2:

  1. Write-on: If you were trying to change the world, how would you know if you were successful or not?
  2. Introduce the Social Action Plan.
  3. Discuss-On: Who should decide what gets taught in schools?
  4. Read and Discuss Chapter 8:
    • What is the worst type of coercion displayed so far?
    • Why does T.J. “turn” on the Logans?
  5. Extension:
    • Finish chapter 8 for Wednesday.

Core 3:

  1. Write-on: Is “happily ever after” a fictional creation or a representation of reality? Why?
  2. Who gets a “happily ever after” in Act V of The Merchant of Venice?
    • Construct a “Shrek-like” organizer.
  3. Extensions:
    • “Study” for MOV quiz on Friday.

Core 4:

  1. Reflect-on: How was the “debate” you held while I was gone different from the debate that you designed (with diagram)?
  2. Share out your diagrams on the document camera.
  3. Test the most popular form out with “Solved: They mayor should have paid the Piper.”
  4. What can we do differently/better next time?
  5. Extensions:
    • Write out what kind of debate you believe are worth having.

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