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Post date: Apr 26, 2016 4:24:06 PM
Monday April 25, 2016 - 2Black & Tuesday April 26, 2016 - 2Green & 4Green
- discussed what we'll be doing for the rest of the year (Creating an Op-Ed News Project - U3EA1; Writing a Personal Essay - U4EA1; Creating a Multi-Genre Project - U4EA2)
- voluntarily shared Pursuit of Happiness / Transcendentalism experiences that happened over April Break
- looked at 3.9 and discussed editorials in relation to the bear-baiting issue from last year's ballot
Homework: find editorials from both ends of the bear-baiting issue (baseline assignment) or from both ends of the school, local, or national issue that you plan to use for the Creating an Op-Ed News Project embedded assessment.
Wednesday April 27 (2Black) & Thursday April 28, 2016 (2Green & 4Green)
Today's goal: understanding how a critical and objective thinker distills issues to their essence, for clearer understanding
- set the guidelines for how to approach debate distillation (being objective about the issues, not subjective)
- chose two-three debatable issues via the issues poll: https://docs.google.com/a/rsu73.com/forms/d/1wtSgGpou2HnxUPJDR3benAsyLoYtFEykfeH83X84taA/edit?usp=forms_home&ths=true#responses
- through critical thinking, questioning, discussion, determined the "point of contention / essential disagreement" of each issue
Homework: look again at your editorials to see if both sides of the issue are represented and where they fall on the distilled debate spectrum
Friday April 29, 2016
Today's goals: final choice on our individual Op-Ed project issues, research, putting our Op-Ed project issues through the debate distiller, and editorial drafts
Resources: Pro/Con Debate Topics link (thank you for the resource, A.T.): http://www.procon.org/debate-topics.php and the debate distiller (photo, below).
Suggestion / Strong Encouragement: use EasyBib to keep track of your resources, as I'll be being REALLY UPTIGHT about MLA for this assessment
Homework: write an editorial about your Op-Ed issue (you may use Activity 3.10 as a guideline). You may also use this guideline for the differences between editorials and letters to the editor: http://www.ccmc.org/node/16090
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