Objective:
Warm-up:
- Review your group's prepared testimony, ensuring that it includes a formal introduction (who is speaking, what group do they represent, what are the values and mission of the group), as well as a claim (the committee should reject, approve, or amend the legislation) supported with evidence and reasoning.
- Create a table tent that identifies your name and the interest group you represent on the paper that has been provided.
Classwork:
- Each group will have 5 minutes to deliver an opening statement. The statements should work to convince the state senators to vote for or against the proposed law, or to rewrite it.
- After opening statements, the senators will have 15 minutes to question the interest groups.
- The state Senate Education Committee will then vote on the proposed law—to move it out of committee as is, to reject it outright, or to work to modify it.