Thursday, April 18th

Goals: 
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: 

• No Blog Post this week! 
• Graph of the Week--due today
• We will present debates on Monday. 
• Book Club meeting Tuesday, April 30th 
  • ​American Street--EL
  • ​A Wide Expanse of Sea--LL

1. Book Talk & Reading


2. Graph of the Week: Discuss--What interesting arguments could be supported by this data? 

3. What does a speaker do to establish ETHOS and be persuasive? 

• 30 second presentations. 

4. Debate Groups

• Debate process 
• Discuss questions 
  • ​For the other side
  • What you think they will ask you and prepare how you will respond. 
  • Practice your presentation 3 times. Use our checklist to give feedback on the presentations. 

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)