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Debate: What's So Funny About Peace, Tolerance, and Understanding?
Kind of Activity:
Group Discussion
Objective:
To get students to think more critically about the themes of the novel from a variety of perspectives.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6
Structure:
The teacher should ask students to prepare for another classwide debate. Once again, he/she should divide the class into three groups. This time, however, the debate will be more abstract: instead of representing two conflicting parties, the first two groups will be...
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