Guided+Activity-Ann+Marie+Morreale

**__Guided Activity__** **What do you stand for?**

Using debates in the classroom can help students grasp many essential critical thinking and presentation skills. Classroom debates can foster abstract and analytical thinking, citizenship, cross examination, point of view, distinguishing fact from opinion, identifying bias, public speaking, research and teamwork.

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=**The Process/Student Objectives **=
 * Students will brainstorm a topic and pick a side to defend. [|Ideas for Debate]
 * Students will view a live debate and takes notes on the process. [|Watch a Debate]
 * Students will use [|Google Docs] to submit a class debate form to your teacher.
 * Students will sketch out a debate using [|Roles and Rules] template.
 * Students will present debate to the audience (classmates) and your teacher.