Friday, January 14, 2011
Washington v Du Bois debate
I am moving the actual debate to Wednesday. However, for those of you who were gone and are checking the blog, I have posted the roles on docushare. The large classes are split into two debate groups. If you are an interviewer, you are expected to write ten questions for the participants. If you are a participant without an asterisk, you are to defend your person's point of view. If you have an asterisk, you are doing opposition research on your opponent, so that you are prepared to counter their arguments. If you have questions, feel free to post.
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." ~William James
23 comments:
Any Ideas as to were i might find primary sources, on the battles and such on the war of 1812. I have been looking for the past few days and just keep getting more and more frusterated.
Not that it matters, but why is Terry an eskimo for the debates? What view would an eskimo have? On another more personal view, what is the debate format? Do we present our points of view, answer questions, crossfire, answer more questions etc?
Also are the attack iguanas only supposed to be doing the crossfire type stuff or do we do other stuff too?
Josh, go to sleep. Just... go to sleep.
Ryleigh
http://www.shmoop.com/war-1812/primary-sources.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p1.cfm
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/br1814m.asp
Josh,
Answer question, response, crossfire. Iguanas should only be doing the response and crossfire.
Hi, my name is Natalie Griffin, I'm in your 3rd period class, and i'm not on the list. What should i do?
Sorry Natalie. You can be a Southern white newspaper editor. Be sure to develop about ten questions.
Mr. O'Donnell,
One quick question, as the position of Northern White, is there anything else to that? Is this debate founded around the ideals of differeing public oppinion through newspapers? I get the ten questions, just wondering for development of a few ideas.
Thanks!a
do you still want our packets read by tomorrow or are they now due wed?
AM I Booker T. or am i representing him? Thanks
Josh
Laura-A northern white is going to have a different perspective than an African American from the North. However, they will have a view that is not nearly as strident as the Southerner.
Michaella-As you found out in class, they are due tomorrow.
Josh-Whatever makes you happy.
Is it ok to behave anachronistically as if Booker T. Wahsington is still alive and use examples from the period after his life to support his arguements?
Thanks
JOsh
Josh-Yes
Mr. O
is there any particular length we should make our responses/attack? also, should i prepair a response or just be ready for possible questions as the attacker
Mr. O
as a follow up question, are there any particular web pages that you would recomend for me as the person attacking Washington? Also, will the packets be our primary resource or should I depend more on other research?
Thanks
Justin,
The packets should give you your primary resources that you will need. Responses do not have to be terribly long (30 seconds to a minute) would be just fine. Also, you need to have a general understanding of the major criticisms of Washington. DuBois' writings are the place to start with those.
Mr. O. Please tell me what I am supposed to do as an Eskimo.
Eskimo. You need to write 10 questions to ask Dubois and Washington. Not 10 each but ten total. They should be from your point of view (as a native american). Your questions could probably be quite basic like "What does this do for me?" etc. Hope it helps. (Mr. O is probably about to go to bed if he hasn't yet)
Mr. O,
I finished the debate make-up
paper and sent it to you, but im not sure if i got it in on time
thanks for the oppertunity, though
Justin Orr
Mr. O,
This pertains nothing to the debate we had last week but, today I heard from a teacher that shall be remained unamed, that we are in a depression. Is that true? Thanks
Colin
Colin,
This isn't a bad explanation of recession and depression. http://economics.about.com/cs/businesscycle/a/depressions_2.htm
I think anyone who calls this a depression is making an overstatement based on the evidence. This recession is severe but is much closer to what we went through in the early 1980s rather than 1930s or 1890s. Those latter dates were true depressions.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Thought you would like this quote that appeared on my radar all of a sudden
Josh
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