Monday, April 22nd

Student develops a position supported with coherent claims, counterclaims, evidence, and analysis of evidence. Student selects evidence, etc. based on knowledge of audience.


As a listener, student understands essential meaning of an oral text and can demonstrate that understanding.  As a speaker, student effectively conveys essential meaning through an oral text.


Announcements: 

• Article of the Week:  Privileged by Kyle Korver 
• Blog Post #5 due on Friday. 
  
• Book Club meeting Tuesday, April 30th 
  • ​American Street--EL
  • ​A Wide Expanse of Sea--LL

1. Book Talk & Reading


2. Debates 

• 8 minutes to talk and practice 
• Debate #1 & #2
  • ​What good argument moves did you notice in this debate?  
    
  • What is the middle ground solution for this topic? 
    

3. Sentence connectors

• THAMO (or Conjunctive Adverbs).

4. Found Poetry with Choice books 



Topics:  1st Hour 
The death penalty should be banned in the U.S. 
--Julian, Marco, Dav'on (Negative) 
--Peter, Thomas, Felix (Affirmative) 

There should be more restrictions on buying guns in the United States. 
--Sage, Tori, Hugh (Affirmative) 
--Chris, John, George (Negative) 

3rd Hour
There should not be animal testing for scientific or commercial reasons
--Sean, Ronan, Alex, Cortez (Affirmative) 
--Ben K, CJ, Crispin, Ben B. (Negative) 

The gender wage gap in the United States is a problem and should be addressed. 
--PJ, Sam, Thor, Andrew (Affirmative) 
--Phillip, Tej, Josh (Negative) 

There should be more restrictions on buying guns in the United States. 
--Ritchie, Amber, Lindsey, Avah, Ava (Affirmative) 
--Owen, Asher, Adie, Rohan (Negative)