James P. Brochin
A. Learning Objectives
The students will be able to:
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1. make an oral argument for or against the NSA program.
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2. respond to the arguments of fellow students about the NSA program.
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3. support their arguments with relevant facts and references to sources.
B. Initiation Strategy:
Teacher models, with three student volunteers, the use of microphones, enunciation, and rules of the debate.
C. Lesson Strategy:
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1. Students have a debate/discussion about their responses to the NSA program. A
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minimum of four microphones would be placed around the room, a student would
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serve as the host and moderator, two students would serve as sound technicians,
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and all students would be expected to participate. Students would form into pros
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and cons. Students would present arguments, rebut opposing arguments, and then
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follow a more open-ended discussion format. All of this would be digitally taped,
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later edited, and posted on the Internet as a class Podcast.
D. Closing:
Teacher plays back five minutes of the debate.
E. Homework:
Students write one page about what they learned from the debate, and which side they thought won the debate, and why.