Argumentative Prompt: What is Columbus Day? Should we celebrate Columbus Day? Why/why not? How/When did people first come to this continent?
- 5 minute journal entry
Journal Notes on PPT
(slides 1-18 last slide is Columbus poster)
- Take notes in your journal using a t-chart format and always date your entries for full credit
*PPT@ http://www.slideshare.net/collumc/native-peoples-of-america
Read
- Read technical document (discuss as partners and create a pro/con chart about Columbus Day by using info in document and by using "lawyer sense" - Pretend you are defending Columbus in order to create the "pro" side of the chart)
(Con document attached)
Create
- Class Pro/Con chart on the board (create together using input from each group/set of partners)
View (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wm0EvTk8o4
Canary Effect- cons of celebrating Columbus Day
Write/Review
- Add another paragraph to your initial prompt "Should we celebrate Columbus Day?"
columbus.doc |