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Jackie Lockhart

Weekly mini-debates

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Subjects: Writing, English Language Arts, Character Building

Student Instructions

Pick one of the questions below to share and defend your opinion on: Should kids be paid for doing chores? Should video games be considered a sport? Paper books or online books? 1. Share and defend your opinion on the topic in any format that you'd like (write, draw, share link, make short video, record short voice recording, other). 2. Comment on at least 2 other people's posts - 1 that you agree with and 1 that you disagree with 2a. For agreement - provide evidence/examples that support your shared opinion 2b. For disagreement - provide your counterargument 3. Comment back on your post with rebuttals *See link for sentence starters and examples

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