Monday, November 12, 2012

Discussions

Today we started a new text type. We'll be looking at Discussions for the next few weeks. Here are two Discussions we wrote as a class.

Should kids do jobs at home?

Our class had a discussion on whether or not children should do chores at home.

Kids could earn money by doing chores and they could buy things without asking their parents for money.
Helping out at home could impress their parents.
Kids could get money for doing jobs and they could buy more toys.

Kids could get frustrated by doing chores and lose their temper.
If children are too close to the ground they could get dust in their lungs.
They could miss out on their favourite shows if they were doing jobs.

Most of the class decided that kids should do chores to help their parents.

Should school change to 12:00pm-6:00pm?
Our class had a discussion on whether or not school should change to 12:00pm-6:00pm

School should change from 12:00pm-6:00pm because kids could have more time at home to help around the house in the morning.
Kids could catch up with their friends in the morning.
Students would be able to concentrate more in class.

School should not change 12:00pm-6:00pm because kids would get home too late and they wouldn’t get enough sleep.
Kids wouldn’t have enough time after school for special activities like Scouts or Sport.
Families would not have enough time together at night if school went until 6pm because they would only have time for dinner and bed.
Most of us decided that school should stay with the same hours.
Jointly constructed by 1/2DW


1 comment:

  1. Such brilliant conclusions to your Discussion topics!1/2DW students are so clever indeed:))Pat Khatri

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