Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.3D Grade12 CPI 2

 

Standard: 3.3 Speaking

 

Strand: D - Oral Presentation

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will use a variety of organizational strategies (e.g., focusing idea, attention getters, clinchers, repetition, transition words).

 

Grade: 12

 

 

Sample Activities:

 

·               Watching a replay of a recent or historical presidential debate, students take notes to identify elements of debate, including logical argument, evidence, and points of rebuttal, and then discuss them.

 

·               The teacher discusses a teacher-prepared outline of the elements of debate as a guide for notetaking and presents a point system for scoring debates. Students then view and take notes on a taped political debate (e.g., local, state, presidential) and identify elements of debate evident in the tape. Afterwards, they discuss what they saw in the debate, identifying the elements of debate and assigning scores for each element.

 

·               The teacher leads students in a discussion of the elements of debate and then asks students to consider the topic, “Real versus Virtual Pets,” and the question, “Which is better to own?” Students are given time to discuss this topic in groups and then to decide which point of view they want to represent in a team debate. During the debate, the opposing teams are seated on opposite sides of the room.