Professor John Carroll University University Heights, Ohio, United States
This lesson for middle grades asks students to read the beginning of a dialogue featuring different perspectives on a controversial issue and then write the ending.
Learning Objectives:
This lesson plan provides an opportunity for students to learn how to hold a philosophical discussion of controversial issues.
The dialogue format teaches students to express their own views along with the views of others in a fair and balanced way, thereby modeling democratic discourse.
Within the diversity of global society, the truth emerges over time through respectful disagreement and mutual understanding.
