Wednesday Class Plan

Take Roll

Assign Timekeeper

Journal Assignment:  I will have 8 clippings of news stories that state "facts" cut out before class. In class, I will give each student a clipping and ask them to rewrite the news story as if they were there. This will hopefully help build the students understanding of the difference between narrative and fact spewing. However, there are 16 students in my class. this means two people will have the same story and this will help them understand that there are two sides to every story, including history and accounts. this will help them to understand to read both sides of argument because often the gap lies between the two. (15-20 minutes).

Kantz discussion game: Three Facts and an Inquiry
To help them understand to build on sources and then pose questions, we will pick a topic that the whole class is interested in discussing. Then we will go around the room and the first three students will state what they believe to be a fact of the topic then the fourth person will ask a question about something stated as fact.  
We will continue around the room until hopefully arriving at an original niche in the discussion not yet considered. (15 minutes).

We will get into the groups established on Wednesday, based on interesting facts about ourselves, and split up the homework questions. then we'll go through each one, discussing correct answers or interpretations. (15 minutes, 5 minutes each).

End of class questions: last 10 minutes