01.30 - [Snow Day]

There was no school today due to the inclement weather.

01.29 - Rebuttal Practice (part II)

Today we, switched groups around from last class with those who did research last class completing the article rebuttal and those who had worked on the rebuttal worked on their research.

Extra copies of the article and article rebuttal sheet are available below.

People doing research are aiming to complete 20 notecards for their side of our debate. Notecards should now be focused on their specific claim within their half of the debate.

Handouts:

Teen Ink: Legalize Marijuana
Article Rebuttal


Homework:

If you were researching today: Continue your research creating 20 or more notecards for our next class.

If you were reading the article today: Complete the article rebuttal sheet.

01.28 - [Snow Day]

There was no school today due to the inclement weather.

01.27 - [Snow Day]

There was no school today due to the inclement weather.

01.26 - Rebuttal Practice

At the beginning of class today, everyone looked at their argument focus declaration sheets and identified which elements they had managed to find information for in their research and which elements still needed to be researched.

Then, half the class used this reflection to begin doing their research and the other half of the class read an article related to our current debate topic and responded to reading questions on the article rebuttal sheet.

Next class, the people working with the article will have time to research and the people who were researching today will be reading and responding to the article.

Handouts:

Teen Ink: Legalize Marijuana
Article Rebuttal


Homework:

If you were researching today: Continue your research creating 20 or more notecards for our next class.

If you were reading the article today: Complete the article rebuttal sheet.

01.20 - 01.23 - Midterms

This week we are having our midterm exams.

Everyone will be following the midterm exam schedule handed out in advocacies.

There is no homework this week aside from preparing for midterms.

01.16 - Debate Group Meeting

Everyone spent half of today's class conducting research and creating notecards for their debate. The other half of class was spent meeting with their debate group. The meeting agenda was as follows:

1 - Review and discuss research so far.
2 - Brainstorm key arguments that can be presented in the debate (5 minimum)
3 - Identify and discuss caveats or conditions that will be important to outline in your argument for or against marijuana legalization.
4 - Identify the most significant/powerful arguments and have each person claim one of these arguments.
5 - Complete an argument declaration sheet (see below).

The argument declaration sheets will be used to help focus and guide further research into this topic as we begin writing formal arguments after our midterms next week.

Handout:

Debate Argument Focus Declaration


Homework:

Review appeals, rhetorical devices, and logical fallacies in preparation for the midterm where you will need to be able to analyze the use of these elements in writing (Thursday's midterm) and incorporate them into your own writing (Friday's midterm). The documents below will help you in this review:

Logical Fallacies
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Devices - differentiation
Appeals Overview
Ethos
Pathos
Logos