In class today, we brainstormed topics for debate that we will use to learn how debate works and to construct arguments using the appeals and rhetorical devices that we have been learning about.
We spent the other half of our class identifying basic principles for social interaction that we will use to guide us as we approach discussing and debating topics in which people may be very emotionally invested and which may prove divisive.
I spent some time at the end of class, introducing people to a discussion format that we will be using this week called the Socratic seminar. We will work more with this tomorrow.
Handouts:
Socratic Seminar Prep Sheet
Homework:
If you are revising your recitation of your poem tomorrow, practice your poem tonight.
Revisions:
Salt Water Tones analysis - due Wednesday, 11/26
