The Great Debaters! -
7th Grade Learning Targets: Know what you are learning. Today in class you were practising:
Speaking and Listening (S.L. 1&3)
1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
3. Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
Coming Next Week
- Grammar Unit 3: Advanced Superlatives and Comparatives
- Writing: Thesis Statements/Claims Generator / Counterarguments / Transitional Phrases / Anecdote openings / Emotive language
- Reading: Text Analysis / Validity of Sources (Bias and Authority) / Target Audiences
- Word Study: Unit 3 Test / Unit 4 Roots
Excellent work this week... Shout out to David H. - Scoring an 'A' on the parallel structure assessment
What is missing in 'our' worlds?
Add your ideas as comments, and maybe we will implement your suggestion in class.
8 comments:
This kind of goes along with one of the guys but I think a no electronics day. We as humans get sucked up in social networking and social media. It is really kind of getting tiring. Lots of people don't have electronics but for those who do we generally spend lots of time on the internet, social media etc.
+1 - Great idea. My family certainly needs one of these days
Same with mine :)
I think that there should be an outside day. So you get stuck outside with no electronics and just get to meet new people. I understand that you can meet people online but that takes such a long time and you do not know that persons true personality, but when you meet them in person your world can change. In order to meet these people you get stuck outside all day and just walk around town with nothing. I feel as though this would and could be very fun for everyone, so we can meet lots of new people. "Happy Outside Day":)
+1 Jess - Great suggestion
That is a great idea and with a great explanation behind it!
It would be really nice if more people commented on the internet.
Regarding something that we should do, I'll definitely pick a "give a smile" Day. Positivity will spread around like wildfire.
If I had to pick something we celebrate, such as a event in history, (obviously this differs from country to country, and for simplicity's sake I'm talking about the USA) I'd choose the 20th of July, where humanity took it's first huge leap in space exploration. Not sure if it should be a holiday though.
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