AGORA 2011

About:
The English Debate Club (AGORA) at Sadaebugo aims to improve students' English speaking skills through discussion about various topics. Students will debate in a variety of formats and eventually hope to compete against other schools.

Original Debate Syllabus
First Debate Information Session
2nd Debate Information PPT

Calendar:
Saturday, June 11th: English competition - Miss Morrow is unavailable
Sunday, June 12th, 5pm: English Pizza Dinner and Debate in HAWAII! Topic: Immersion (using the target language to teach the language you are trying to learn) is the best way to learn a language. Related topics include studying abroad.
Saturday, June 18th: Students study for finals (FIGHTING!) - EDC doesn't meet.
Saturday, June 25th: Students enjoy time at home, Miss Morrow enjoys a visit from a friend. :D

Sunday, July 10th, dinnertime: Debate Gay Rights
Saturday, July 17th: Miss Morrow leaves for USA, students enjoy time at home

Monday, August 15th: Miss Morrow returns to Korea.

Saturday, September 3rd, lunchtime: Discuss Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Saturday, September 17th, lunctime: Discuss personality types and leadership led by Je Woo

Saturday, October 15th, lunchtime: Discuss Nano-technology led by Kilmook

Sunday, November 6th, dinnertime: Childhood Prostitution led by Sujin

Other information:
Results of Survey: Color-coded. Red and orange topics received the most number of "Very Interested" or "Interested votes." Yellow is "?", Green means "Not very interested" and Blue is "I dislike this topic.
Judge's Form

GNH and the Balloons of Bhutan

We talked about happiness by listening to the song "Happiness" from the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The lyrics list several things that Charlie Brown and his friends think are happiness.

Then we learned about GNH (Gross National Happiness) and watched this video:

Students rated Korea's GNH on a scale of 1-10 and then learned about about the GNH in Bhutan with the Balloons of Bhutan Project. You can also explore the statistics for lots more about the project. (My favorite section is the one about wishes). ^^ We listened to Jonathan Harris explain the project.

We looked at some of the pictures, listened to some of the stories (Chimi Dema  & Tandin Gyeltshen).

Finally, we made Wordles of what made each class happy. :)

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