Preparing for Debate

Today in class we decided we wanted to try something new. Tomorrow Mr. Schick has told us we will have a debate, or a class discussion on the topic of migration and the current state of immigration for the U.S. We started off by discussing how we were going to handle this. Our class has the tendency to talk over each other and as one side of the room talks to Mr. Schick the other side finds new conversation. Because we all know this is true, we decided to split up into 3 sections; pro Trump, neutral, and against Trump. We also decided to add a time limit of two minutes, for students like Patty that would talk the whole class if this wasn't set. After coming up with a few basic guidelines, we listened to a podcast about asylums. My first thought was an insane asylum, but it actually is like a refugee camp for immigrants in poor conditions. I'm glad I was informed of that for the discussion tomorrow, and I'm excited to see how we do tomorrow.