Argumentation and Debate

Day 2

Learning Activities

  1. Sign up for Lincoln Douglas DebateRead the handout with requirements, sample topics and magazines, and select a topic and date for your live LD debate assignment.
  2. Argument Clinic: Watch the video and connect it to concepts discussed in today’s reading. Then write down a working definition of an argument. Discuss the definition with a partner and be ready to share with the class.
  3. Reading Discussion: Raise student highlights and comments from the reading on Perusall for discussion.
    1. Reality Testing: Using concepts from the textbook, identify a reality you constructed for yourself. Write it down in as much detail as possible. Find a partner and engage in reality testing. Rewrite your latest reality of that issue following your discussion and be prepared to share with the class.