Transcript 9 The Great Parley, French and Indian War, Dr. Kevin Brady

The Great Parley
The French and Indian War
BLaST I.U. 17
Fall Colloquia
November 18 & 19, 2010
The Debate
• You can assign students to work in four to eight groups. Each group will
represent:
• A party in the negotiations such as Great Britain, France, Virginians, the
Iroquois Confederacy, and the Algonquin tribes.
– Or, other interested parties involved in the Seven Years War, such as Austria,
Prussia, Sweden, Saxony, Russia, Spain, and Hanover in the conference.
• The project will be to argue the belligerents’ position according to
Augustine’s “Just War Theory,” which would be very familiar to all
European belligerents at that time. They will use this fictitious forum to
negotiate an end to the war.
• The topics and the issues are real, but the meeting of all belligerents and
interested parties is fictitious.
• Students are aware that the forum is constructed as a vehicle for debate.
• The data have to be deeply anchored in substantive historical content.
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Each Group:
• Will be broken down into three
subcommittees.
– The Position Committee
– The Opposition Committee
– The Propaganda Committee
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Subcommittees
• The White Paper
Author
• The Orator
• The Researchers
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The Author
• The whole group is responsible for the White
Paper.
• This person will be responsible for writing a
double-spaced, five-page explanation of their
group’s official position.
• This is a formal paper.
• They must cite at least five sources and
include at least 10 footnotes.
• It must be written in the third person.
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The Orator
• Will present a PowerPoint presentation addressed to the
nation on television.
• The presentation will be based on the text of the group’s
White Paper.
• The Orator will not just read the PowerPoint presentation.
• He must discuss the substance of the White Paper.
• The Orator must be prepared to answer two questions from
each of the other groups.
• She should research, or have other group members
research, what the other groups will probably ask her.
• She should be prepared to answer those
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probable questions.
The Researchers
• If there are enough
students in the class,
some students can serve
as researchers.
• They can help research
the White Paper and/or
the PPT content.
• The researchers will
investigate what
questions the opposition
inquisitors might ask.
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The Inquisitors
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The Inquisitors
• This committee (2 or more) or person must research the other groups.
• They will compose two questions to ask each group’s orator.
• If the other group supports their position, they will prepare questions
that will allow them to strengthen their own position.
• If the other group opposes their position, they will look to create
questions that will be hard for them to answer.
• They will look to make the position weaker of those they question,
while making their own position look stronger.
• This subcommittee should also help their own orator prepare for the
questions that will be asked of him.
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The Rhetoricians
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The Rhetoricians:
• Will prepare a propaganda piece to
convince the general public to support
their cause.
• It will be much more informal than the White
Paper.
• This person (committee) may prepare handouts,
posters, brief PowerPoint presentations, short
video commercials, etc.
• The Propaganda author will give a three-minute
presentation to advance his group’s cause.
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The Presentations
Day One
• Everyone should receive all
White Papers.
• Each Orator will give a FIVEminute presentation regarding
her topic.
– The Presentation will include
PowerPoint
• After each Oration, each
group’s Inquisitor will ask TWO
questions (if 4 groups) of the
Orator, (one question if 8
groups – 7 questions).
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The Presentations
Day One, continued
• The Orator shall have one
minute to answer each
question (six to seven
depending on the number
of groups.)
• She must look to counter
the opposing views of the
other groups.
– She may pass her time to
another in her group.
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Once the Orators are done answering
the questions,
the
Propaganda
committees
will give their
presentations.
(Three minutes
each)
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Once all of the proposals are complete, the teacher will
assign a five-paragraph essay to give the students the
opportunity to express their personal opinions on the topic
in their essays.
• They will establish their thesis (main idea) in the first
paragraph.
• In the next three paragraphs they will express their
supporting details.
• They will get the details from the groups’ White Papers
and presentations.
• Their last paragraph will conclude their thoughts and
should lead back to the thesis.
TO WRAP IT UP
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