Critical Thinking Activity

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Section I

• Critical Thinking Activity
• Brown Follett Edition

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Step 1

• Independently
• Reread Captain Beattys monologue (p. 57-60)
• from More sports for everyone (57) to fire
  is clean (60).
• Note Beattys monologue here is crucial to your
  understanding of the text as a whole. Pay
  attention and read carefully!

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Step 2

• In Pairs
• Discuss his view that school cultivates
  anti-intellectual sentiment.
• Do students think it accurately depicts your
  school?
• Do books violate the idea that everyone is made
  equal (p.58)?

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Step 3

• Independently
• Write a letter to Captain Beatty responding to
  his ideas about education and his charge that a
  book is a loaded gun (p.58).
• Do you agree or disagree with his ideas?
• In your letter, explain your own ideas about
  education and the value of books.

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Step 4

• In Pairs
• Pick a new partner.
• Share letters. Comment back on 2 ideas the
  author of the letter brought up. (Use a different
  color or write on separate pg. and attach)
• Turn in.