State of Debate
It’s the year 2020 and it is now illegal for young adults to wear hoodies, sagging pants, and to play music openly in public. Unfortunately, you don’t see the value of these laws and continue to wear and use these items. However, you continually get caught by a monitor. How will you argue your way out of each offense? Find out when you play State of Debate.
This game is found at GCSE Bite Size Games, a gaming site from the UK. A scenario is shown and then you are given three options for response. Select the wrong options and you will have to try again. The purpose is to utilize your debate skills to analyze the options and determine which one shows humility and cleverness.
This game is found at GCSE Bite Size Games, a gaming site from the UK. A scenario is shown and then you are given three options for response. Select the wrong options and you will have to try again. The purpose is to utilize your debate skills to analyze the options and determine which one shows humility and cleverness.
Persuasion is definitely a prominent component in middle school language arts curriculum and a valuable life skill. This game will help promote analysis and decision-making in relation to making solid, valid arguments.
Students, especially those on debate team, would benefit from practicing and comparing the different options and word usage to aid them in developing their own arguments and defense. The advantages of this game include that teachers can use it in a variety of ways. The game could be projected to the whole class/group and the teacher could walk through the first example and model his/her thinking and choices and then have the students help her with the next one and discuss their options together. Then maybe students could work together to try a scenario if they have shown some understanding while the teacher could still work with those who needed more support. If students have previously studied arguments and defense, then maybe this game could be used for the partner or small group collaborative practice and reinforcement or individual practice. A great extension would be for students to determine other issues and try to create their own scenarios and options for their own class game. The students could actually create these games on SCRATCH to help test each other and for more practice. This activity would help them further analyze and evaluate the differences between different arguments and what makes one more effective than the others.
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