Debate topics

Today is the last day of March. My, how time flies. Students took their vocab and grammar quizzes today. Then, they did a little practice with this week's grammar skill- direct objects and indirect objects. There are no vocabulary words this week.

Then, we revisited the debate topics from yesterday. Each class will host two debates and therefore selected two topics for debate: 'Homework should be banned' and 'Cell phones should be allowed in schools.' Students selected which topic they would be debating and then signed up whether they would be supporting the for (affirmative) or against (negative) side of the debate. We will break off in these groups tomorrow to begin brainstorming facts to support the sides.

Later, we watched a clip from the show "Sweatdogs" in order to analyze how a debate is structured and what makes a strong side and what does not. We debriefed the clip and discussed.

Homework: Page one of the grammar packet- Direct objects.