Exploring Word Generation: A Middle School Lesson

In this video clip of a Word Generation Lesson, Grade 8 US History teacher Pat Menges, facilitates a debate aligned with Word Generation weekly. Word Generation Weekly uses compelling topics to engage middle school students in meaningful academic language development work with all their content-area teachers. In this clip we see the debate portion of Word Generation. The topic for the debate is; Should the US have stricter gun regulations?. Students then prepare written arguments for the debate and move to areas of the room aligned with their choice. Pat Menges, facilitates to support students throughout the debate.
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