E Block--Thursday

In B 231, please do the following during class today

Kevin, Matt, Matt, Will, Brittany should begin researching ideas/arguments for the November topic.

Research ideas--you might try entering the following as google searches to get information relevant to the topic:

• religion in public schools
• religion gay rights schools
• religious opposition to antibullying efforts
• religious discourse academic debate
• role religion public square
• role religion political issues
• benefit religious views secular outcomes
• ground zero mosque (to understand the original controversy

I would also to to the forums at PFDebate, create an account there, and read some of the discussions.

Each one of you should
____ find four articles which have at least two cards each which will benefit one or the other side in this resoltuion
____ create a GoogleDoc which
         _____  lists the links
         _____  has a paragraph summarizing the article,
         _____  has the cards immediately after the summary paragraph
         _____  gives a one-two sentence explanation of the relevance/use of the card.
____ share the GoogleDoc with me and each other.

By the end of the block, make sure you have created the GoogleDoc and shared it with me with what you got done during the Block.  Then, finish anything incomplete for HW.

Carina, Nabila, Brianna, if you are doing the November PF topic, please do the preceding work.  If you you are going to do LD during Nov/Dec, however, please do the following:

Begin research on the resolution:  The abuse of illegal drugs ought to be treated as a matter of public health, not of criminal justice.   You may have some older information on public health from last year's Nov/Dec topic.  I'll also see if I can did that VB out for you.

Each one of you should
____ find four articles which have at least two cards each which will benefit one or the other side in this resoltuion
____ create a GoogleDoc which
         _____  lists the links
         _____  has a paragraph summarizing the article,
         _____  has the cards immediately after the summary paragraph
         _____  gives a one-two sentence explanation of the relevance/use of the card.
____ share the GoogleDoc with me and each other.

Everyone else (Congress) is part of the Bill Bank.  What I'd like to develop over the next 10 days or so is a bank of bills which we can then use for the rest of the year.  Along with the Bill Bank will be a number of supporting/opposing articles/research information which the entire team can use.  Therefore, please

____ Work as a Congress group to brainstorm ideas for bills/resolutions.  By the end of the Block you should have at least 20 ideas.  This is mainly a discussion group.
____  Create one document which lists the bill ideas and send it to me by the end of the block.

Connor, Erik, and Jacob, please see me.

BC