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Reading and Writing
The Great Debate
Grade Level:
12
Subject:
Reading
Topic:
The Great Debate
Objective:
Write the Topic on the board: Backchanneling and
most other types of social media should have no
place in high school or university classrooms.
Ask students who agree to move to one side of the
classroom.
Students who disagree, i.e., who believe that social
media can be beneficial in the classroom, should
gather at the other side of the classroom.
Review the debate instructions on page 22 in the
Student Book.
Remind students that they can either make a
new point, with supporting reasons for it, or they
can refute (disagree with) the previous student's
statement and provide a supporting reason for their
opposing opinion.
You may wish to provide sentence frames for
students to present their view, such as these:
“In my opinion... because...” “I disagree with
(student’s name) because... " “I believe that social
media is inappropriate in the classroom because...
” “Laptops/Tablets are/are not useful in the
classroom because..."
Each student returns to his or her seat after
presenting an argument for or against the topic.
After all students are seated, have them vote to
decide which point of view won today.
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