Debating

This week in Room 4 we have been studying debates and how they convince people to believe in a point of view.
First of all we practised doing debates for and against school uniforms in New Zealand schools.
Then we were given set tasks either for or against Facebook R13, Cell phones R11 and Single sex classes.
We are still waiting for the information that will tell us who will be going through to debate with the other classes in the Shooting Stars team.
Some people found rebutting easy and others found it hard, rebutting is putting people down in a nice way, trying to make their argument look weak.
We all learnt we had to be strong or no one would believe us.
By Nathaniel and Maddie.

Debating.

This year Room 4 has been writing arguments. Over the next few weeks our teacher Mrs Patten or Mrs McLeod is going to put us in groups of three , each group will write an against or for argument. Once the arguments are finished they will have lots of great strong words and will be very convincing. Each"for" group will vs an "against" group and the winning group might vs Mrs Patten and Mrs McLeod. The topic we have done so far was "School uniforms should be banned". There will be a lot of debating in Room 4 this term!

By Rebecca and Michelle

Debating

This term our writing topic has been debating. Mrs McLeod has been teaching us all about debating and how to do it. We have learnt that you have to use strong argument language and that there are three speakers. The first speaker has to introduce their team and then say their paragraph of argument reasons. The second speaker says their argument reasons and then the third speaker has to say their reasons and then a conclusion. The topic we have been debating is "School uniforms should be banned." Once you have your team together you have to decide whether you are for the topic or against the topic. After that a team that's for the topic debates against a team that's against the topic. Next week, on the 10th of November the Shooting Stars team are going to have a debating competition. By Paris G