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Debate: Reason and Religion
Kind of Activity:
Group Discussion
Objective:
To get students to think more critically about the themes of the text 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, and divide the class into three groups. The question that students will debate will be: What role should reason play in religion?
At the outset of the activity, the teacher should give two of the three groups a position to defend during the...
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