Class on Monday

For Reading 2: we will continue working on Chapter 6, "Music." Your annotated bibliographies are due May 7, at midnight. Nothing late will be accepted.

For Oral-Aural Skills: we will look at the Lincoln-Douglas debate style. Check out the link here.

Second presentations will need to begin immediately. The topics must be persuasive. That means that you should be arguing for or against something in a logical way. Here are some topics.

• The case for organ donation
• The need for recycling
• Why the death penalty should be abolished
• The need for gun control
• The dangers of taking illegal steroids
• How to pay off your credit card
• Why we should abolish school uniform
• Global Warming – What we can do about it
• Why we should wear seat belts in cars
• Why you should become a blood donor
• The dangers of gambling
• Has the DaVinci code just been made up?
• • Half man – half robot. Should we be scared?
  • Why there should be a United States of Europe
  • An easy way to give up smoking
  • How we can get more people to vote?
  • Why the death penalty should be abolished in the United States
  • Why we should not consume genetically modified crops?
  • Should religious clothes be banned in schools?
  • The war in Iraq – was it justified?