Reading and writing debates

Durée de travail estimée

Prérequis

Avoir complété la fiche d’activité What is a Debate?.

Attente(s)

Reading and Interpretation

• Identify and describe the form, structure, and elements of a variety of texts, including elements such as literary devices and other techniques used to enhance a text’s effectiveness.
• Demonstrate critical literacy skills by identifying and analysing the messages conveyed by and perspectives taken in texts, and the techniques used in texts to communicate meaning and achieve effects.

Writing and Representation

• Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience, conducting research as required.
• Write texts in a variety of forms and for various media, applying their knowledge of the elements and techniques associated with each form.

Contenu(s) d’apprentissage

Reading and Interpretation

• Read a variety of opinion texts and identify their common and distinctive elements.
• Defend their opinions about texts they have read, citing evidence in the text and comparing their own views to a range of opinions expressed by others about the same text.

Writing and Representation

• Use a variety of pre-writing strategies independently and collaboratively to generate ideas, to develop ideas and arguments, and to select an appropriate topic and form for their writing.
• Plan their writing, using an appropriate outline format to organize their material, indicating on it the transitions they propose to make between ideas and information to create a logical flow.
• Write a five-minute speech on a topic of personal interest to them or for a community event : with an attention-grabbing introductory sentence (i.e., a hook); with the ideas and opinions presented in a logical order; with a forceful conclusion.

Déroulement et directives

Dans la dernière fiche d’activité, tu as appris ce qu’est un débat et la manière de structurer des arguments. En complétant les exercices de cette fiche d’activité, tu liras quelques exemples de textes argumentatifs et tu en écriras un. 

Télécharge le document Directives et complète les exercices qui s’y trouvent.

Activité(s) d’apprentissage

Après avoir complété les activités de cette fiche, tu auras :

• lu et analysé trois textes;
• rédigé ton propre débat, en tenant compte des caractéristiques de ce genre de texte.

Matériel

• Ordinateur
• Papier
• Crayon