書彩繽紛的世界-小小書房-閱讀小小-小小緣起
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We Love Reading
   
 

Sappho Says:
I chose in the best and worst of times to open a bookshop. The most important thing was:
Please help the Small Small Bookshop. Let the seed of reading continue to grow. When you pick up a book, it doesn’t matter where you bought it, as far as possible you should share what you’ve read and your feelings. Please continue to dream.

From our interviews with Sappho we saw that from a young age, she had a passion for reading and we also saw the activities Small Small held to promote reading.
Why is promoting reading so important to Sappho?
 Our teacher asked us to think about reading again and so we held a debate called “Do we need to read?” Afterwards we regained our enthusiasm and original intention for reading.

The Debate

Date：11/10/2012
Location：Yu-Tsai Elementary School – Art and Craft Classroom
Attendees：Angela, Eva, Lucy, Sabrina, Joanna, Belle, Andrew, Ray and Eddy

Thinking and Reading

  • The cyberfair team members divided into two teams with opposite points of view.
  • Before the debate, all of the relevant materials were collected and sorted.
  • The teams then prepared their thoughts and ideas.

Activity

Developing Battle Plans

Let the debate begin! After the two sides had taken turns to make statements, they paid close attention to the last time. On one hand they carefully prepared their materials and on the other hand they discussed their battle plans. Everyone talked intensely about how they would face their opponents.

The Rules of the Debate Explained

Before the debate, the teacher explained the rules once more. Typically it’s always noisy, but this time it was quiet as if we were readying ourselves for the battle. Everyone was silent. After hearing the explanation, there was a one minute countdown and the debate began!

The Debate

The class was filled with the thick smell of gunpowder. Each student went to the stage and confidently read out their statements. The students below the stage listened to point with concentration. The opposing team looked for problems in the other side’s argument and was ready to ask questions. This was our first debate and it went really well.

Sharing Thoughts about the Debate

After the debate, the air still seemed a little tense. We each hugged our opponents and everyone was still friends. The atmosphere warmed up again and everyone began to share their thoughts. So how about reading? Well everyone still had their own answer.

Teachers’ Thoughts and Comments

Our teachers also gave us some encouragement and suggestion about today’s debate. They said that this was the first debate we’d done and seeing everyone collect information, debate and work a team was great! They hoped that after the debate, we would think about what reading means to us.

The Use of Thinking Tools in Reading

After the activity, the teachers introduced us to the three kinds of online creative thinking tools, showing evidence, seeing reason and visual ranking to help us reorganize our thoughts.
These three tools cannot only be used to draw cause and effect diagrams, but also they can also sort factors, and they can be used to collate the main points of a debate. They help us to debate and think!
In the future perhaps we could hold an online debate!

The debate was a very special experience. We needed to collect data and put it, and our thoughts, all in order. During the debate we spoke with fervor and assurance. In a debate, it does not matter if you win or lose. What matters, are the results you achieve and discover. The results in this debate taught me why we need to read.

At this activity, everyone shoed the importance of teamwork. I was happy to join this activity ,I thought that I had overcome the difficult when I got on the stage. Although we were like friends, and sometime we wrangled with eather, but when the activity finished we were be happy and chatting with each other. I also learned that even of we don’t use it now, we still need to read more, so we can use it well other time when you need.

This debate was really a good experience for me. On the day before the debate, we prepared the data that we need for a long time, and we also used most of it. This makes me feel pretty happy. Next time if I were still in a debate, I would also find the opponents that they might also find, so that I could analyze out their arguments, and find a way to fight them back.

Source : Yu-Tsai Bookworms