GRADE 8

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WOOHOO, TGIF

Today is an awesome day because we will have Michael and Sara in our classroom.  At 10:30ish, Michael will come in and give you some tips on speaking and presenting - good timing since our debates are around the corner.  Until then we will work on our debate constructives.

F Block Michael and Sara will engage us in Metaphors - good stuff for expressing ourselves both verbally and on paper.  They will use the entire class time.

In the meantime, reminders:
      Short story rewrites are due at the end of next week - print         them out and give them to me.
Debates will take place the week of Feb 1, we will probably get to two per day.
     F & H Blocks - Feb 1 and 3
     C & D Blocks - Feb 2 and 4
At the end of your debate, your printed constructives are due
     IF I HAVE NOT REVIEWED YOUR CONSTRUCTIVE          WITH YOU IN CLASS, YOU MUST SEE ME EITHER            AFTER SCHOOL OR IN THE MORNING.

Now, as you prepare to finalize your constructive, have a look at these ARGUMENT sentence starters - great for introductions and transitions.

I have several reasons for arguing this position: A further point is ....

Although not everybody would agree with my position, I ...

Even though the issue has two sides, I think I have shown that .... Some argue that .... though we can easily see that .... because ....

After looking closely at both sides of the issue and the evidence, we can see that .... because....

Granted, I admit that ....

Then again ...

That is a good point, but I think the evidence shows that... 

Based on the evidence, we should .... because ...

We have a duty to ....