1. Topic Seven: Structured Academic Controversy Encouraging careful consideration of opposing viewpoints on a topic of historical and contemporary significance Black Power

2. Sampling the Black Power lesson Lesson Focus Question: Was Black Power a more realistic strategy than the Beloved Community for achieving full equality for black citizens in the late 1960s? Structured Academic Controversy (SAC): Students are grouped in quads. Within the quads, students partner up and read opposing viewpoints on the CQ. Students present arguments from their perspective within their quad. The students switch sides and repeat the process. Small group then whole class discussion.

3. Structured Academic Controversy - Instructions Step 1: Organized into quads. Partnered up within your groups. Step 2: One set of partners will receive Reading 1 – Side 1 while the other gets the Reading 1 – Side 2 reading. Step 3: Read and complete #1 on the Student Discussion Scaffold. (7A-13) Step 4: Persuasively argue your perspective on the CQ to the opposing team within your quad (#2 on scaffold) - use as many types of reasoning as possible. (7A-16) Step 5: Round 2 – You will receive a new reading to use while completing #3 and #4 on your scaffold.

4. Deliberate and Debrief

5. SAC Summary Purpose of strategy : Dialectical Reasoning careful consideration of opposing viewpoints formulate a decision on an issue use reasoned argumentation Variations: Geovanis case

6. PIH Curriculum Design Principles 1.Scaffolded Instruction 2.Authenticity 3.Multiple Intelligences 4.Effective collaboration