Learning Tasks for Monday, March 31

Essential Question:  What are the best ways to persuade an audience?

Objectives:  I can...
-persuade my peers to approve my policy.
-receive and apply feedback to my policy.

1.  Warm Up

Read this article on Food Deserts in NC and add the information to your Current Events Chart.

2. Preparing Presentations

1. Before you present your policies to the class, you will have ten minutes to plan.  What main selling points will you use to convince your fellow citizens of Dome-Sanford to approve your policy?  How much will your policy cost?
2. Get pre-presentation feedback from one other group.  What suggestions do you have for each other?  Identify one plus and one delta.
3. Take ten minutes to make suggested changes to your presentation.

3. Policy Presentations
Let's get some policies passed!!!  Remember to fill out your evaluation sheet for each group.

4.  Evaluation and FINAL VOTE

• Be sure to offer at least two pluses and two deltas for each group.  What did they do well?  What could they improve?

• Which policies will make it into Dome-Sanford's Social Contract?  We we vote on each policy- majority wins!

5.  Exit Ticket
How is the process we used to create and vote on policies similar to the US government?  Dissimilar?