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cultivating critical thinking

Putting all the pieces together...

9/7/2017

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WARM UP
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Using the "Assertive Language" doc, construct claims and counterclaims to clarify your thinking.
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BOOK TRAILER
✔ completed script (answered questions)
✔ self-assess CONTENT 
✔ storyboarding 

Scene 1    Scene 2     Scene 3    Scene 4
✔ collecting footage for the scenes


​DEBATE TEAM STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING

Meeting with your team members, you will devise a strategic planning, establishing claims & counterclaims.

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Revolutionary Debate PREP

9/5/2017

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Improv Game

Three-Word-At-A-Time-Poem

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Kepler's Mars Orbit Drawing. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. 
quest.eb.com/search/139_2009055/1/139_2009055/cite. Accessed 5 Sep 2017.

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Revolutionary Debate PREP
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Researching &
​Note-taking on OPPOSITION
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​8a DEBATES
8e DEBATES
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8f DEBATES
Debate Procedure
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ROBERT HOOKE'S MICROSCOPE. - Line engraving after the illustration in his 'Micrographia,' 1665.. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. 
quest.eb.com/search/140_1633691/1/140_1633691/cite. Accessed 5 Sep 2017.​


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Book Trailer
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​Self-Assessment, Content

Storyboarding and collecting footage

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Revolutionary Thinkers Debate PREP

9/1/2017

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1  Improv
Game

"Yes and..."


​2  Debate
​Preparation

Research Approaches Share Out & Annotating Research Notes 
(using student exemplars of debate research doc)
Researching & Citing Sources

8a DEBATES
8e DEBATES
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8f DEBATES

Debate Procedure

3  The Scientific
​Revolution

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August 29th, 2017

8/29/2017

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1. Warm Up: Word Association Game
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2. Copernicus Sketchnote Collaborative Assessment
​(student & teacher) *locate the doc in your SS folder, please.
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3. Revolutionary Thinkers Debate PREP


8a DEBATES

8e DEBATES 
8f DEBATES


Debate Planning Doc,
​Researching & Citing Sources



​HOMEWORK: Book Trailer Assignment

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Book Trailer Script & Debate Preparation

8/28/2017

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1 Improv Game Warm Up: "What are you doing?"
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2 How's your book trailer SCRIPT coming along?


Book Trailer Assignment
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Deconstructing Film Trailers,
​Student-Generated Idea Collection Doc
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3 Revolutionary Thinkers DEBATE Preparation


Debate Procedure
Debate Planning Doc
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​8a DEBATES
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8e DEBATES
​8f DEBATES

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Copernicus, Sketchnoting & Analyzing Historical Film Trailers

8/24/2017

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Part 1:
​Warm Up

​Circulate around the room, when your hear a drum beat pause, turn to the person closest to you and respond to the prompt. Repeat for two more rounds.


​Part 2:
Sketchnoting Gallery Walk
& Peer Critique,
​Stars & Wishes


​Display your sketchnotes based on the BBC documentary on  Copernicus entitled, "The Beauty of Diagrams". Write your name on a post-it , title it "stars" and place it on the left side of your sketchnote. Write your name on another post-it and title it "wishes",placing it on the right side of your sketchnote.

We will go on a "gallery walk". You will study your peers' sketchnotes and document a star and a wish, adding your name beside your comment.
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​Part 3:
​Book Trailer Script

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Photo Credit: Shmector Flickr via Compfight cc
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How is your reading going? What have you learned about the characters/historical figures and the historical events?

Let's analyze these film trailers based on historical events...
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Revolutionary Thinkers DEBATE TEAMS

8/22/2017

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Please CLICK HERE for our DEBATE PROCEDURE

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Copernincus & Sketchnoting & Credibility Discussion

8/22/2017

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PART 1: SKETCHNOTING WORKSHOP
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Let's begin reviewing our sketchnoting techniques with a workshop on sketchnoting.

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PART 2: VIEWING DOCUMENTARY ON COPERNICUS & SKETCHNOTING

We're going to view the BBC documentary on Copernicus and begin sketchnoting.
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PART 3: TRACKING A TEAM DISCUSSION ON DEBATING BY USING AN APP CALLED "EQUITY MAPS"


After reading the google presentation slides on debating, have a discussion with your team sharing your insights and takeaways related to credibility and the art of persuasion in debating.
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Let's Debate!

8/22/2017

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Scientific Revolution

8/18/2017

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Individuals who challenged the established norms...


Revolutionary Thinkers Debate Project
​PLANNING DOCS:
  • SS SIGN UP DEBATE Revolutionary Inventions
  • ​Debate Procedure
  • Revolutionary Thinkers  Debate Planning doc
  • 8__. NAME. Self/Peer/Judge/Teacher Debate Assessment 2016-17

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