This Week
We are half way through our debate preparations today with students working on crafting their contentions, finding their evidence, and (for the groups who are really on top of things) tying all of their evidence together with a unifying theme. Students have been given mini-lessons this week on finding evidence, crafting contentions, developing themes, and coming up with reasoning to tie their arguments together. Today I spent the period meeting with students individually to look at their evidence and provide them feedback on how to improve it. They had to fill out a form by this morning at 8:00AM letting me know what their evidence/contentions would be for the debates so I could provide feedback.
Students' Chinese Comic Life projects were also due today, which I will try to finish grading over the weekend. What I've looked at so far looks pretty good!
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| This is Colleen Fulton's comic life project. She did a great job! |
We also had a good time enjoying the beautiful weather this week (while continuing to prepare for the debates):
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| The weather was too nice to stay inside today, so we went outside! |
Upcoming Week
Next week we will be doing the following as we prepare for our final debates:
Monday - I will meet w/students one on one, students will begin practicing constructive speeches w/in their own groups and critiquing one another/refining their arguments
Tuesday - Same as Monday
Wednesday - Class will do a run-through of the whole 1st half of the debates with another like group (progress presents to progress so no potential opponents get an unfair advantage!) and give each other feedback.
Thursday - The class will do run-throughs of the whole debate (cont.) with whole-class critique
Friday - Groups will work on revising based on class feedback after finishing up whole debate run-throughs and preparing for debates, which will start during 1st period on Monday!
I hope you have a restful weekend and come back ready to finish the year strong!
~Mr. Grieve
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