Be it Resolved: A Lesson in Debating

Assessment Criteria

Program Area: Social Studies (History)
Criterion: Understanding Concepts
Attainment Descriptors:

• Prepared information for debate accurately reflects the information as outlined in the Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company Web site
  
• Personal opinions and arguments expressed in the debate are supported by clearly communicated evidence from the Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company Web site

Program Area: Language, Reading
Criterion: Reading of Non-fiction Materials
Attainment Descriptor:

• Reads related information from NLC-BNC Web site as specified by the teacher
  
• Applies information from reading to the debate

Program Area: Language, Writing
Criterion: Use writing for various purposes and in a range of contexts
Attainment Descriptor:

• Uses note-taking effectively to record and organize information and ideas for the debate

Program Area: Oral and Visual Communication
Criterion: Conventions
Attainment Descriptor:

• Speaks clearly and uses appropriate variety in volume, rate, tone and pitch, pause, stress and emphasis, inflection, fluency.
  
• Follows format of debate properly (uses time appropriately, does not interrupt, refutes arguments in rebuttal)

Program Area: Language, Oral and Visual Communication
Criterion: Cooperative Group Work
Attainment Descriptor:

• Listens attentively to organize and classify information and to clarify thinking