LEARNING TO DEBATE
Skills in speaking, thinking and self-expressions
To be used with the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Learning Activity
by Howard Taylor, A Learning-On Line Learning Activity

Debating:  An American political tradition since the great Lincoln-Douglas Debates in Illinois, 1858.  
------To help develop the higher level of thinking on the Bloom Taxonomy to gain personal confidence, to be allowed self-expression around more outward-going peers, even if you are the quiet type.  Everyone gets his/her turn in debating, EQUALLY!
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DEBATE TOPICS LIST:  CLICK HERE

STUDENTS:   CLICK HERE for the Historical Portion Jobs
            CLICK HERE for the Debating Jobs
See the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Learning Activity website for details of the Historical portion of this activity.
Activity Plan:  This activity will have two parts in which students will   1. Research and answer questions concerning the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, including how their historical importance, and how they were conducted.
2.  Plan and participate in debates on contemporary subjects within the class and eventually between other class


How our Illinois quarter could have looked if the Lincoln-Douglas Debate had been depicted instead of Abe as a Young Man.   Do you think this design should have been chosen?  Why?



ON-LINE REFERENCES
What's a Debate Anyway?
Webquest
 Debating Skills
Adjuncting a Debate
(Assessment Procedure--Marking Form)
 I beg to Differ: 
Debating Glossary
Characteristics of a
good debator
 Good Speaking Characteristics
 by Debators
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