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Mrs. O's House: Actively Seek Out Information That Challenges Our Beliefs ActivityMrs. O's House: Actively Seek Out Information That Challenges Our Beliefs Activity
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Cynthia J. O'Hora
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Pre-K - 1st
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English Language Arts
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Mrs. O's House: Actively Seek Out Information That Challenges Our Beliefs

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Based upon a speech delivered by President Barack Obama, this activity encourages students to check out the "flip side" of issues before making up your mind.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

information literacy

Additional Tags

both sides of a story, collecting information, difference in opinion, different opinion, gathering information, letter to editor, political issue, editorial, opinion, project-based lessons

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RH.6-8.8 RST.6-8.8 W.K.8 W.1.8 W.2.8 SL.4.1.c

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