FROM THE CIVIX ORGANIZATION THAT SPONSORS THE STUDENT VOTE WEBSITE: With three weeks until election day, the political parties are doing everything they can to get their message out. Most of the parties have now announced their major commitments and the leaders are starting to prepare for next week’s leaders’ debates.
The English-language debate is scheduled for Monday, October 7, and the French-language debate is scheduled for Thursday, October 10. To help prepare for these debates, today’s newsletter shares a few tools and resources you can use in the classroom. POLLENIZE CANADA 2019: We are pleased to announce the launch of Pollenize Canada 2019, an online tool that breaks down the campaign promises made by the major parties on thirteen different election issues. CIVIX worked with Pollenize on the party platform research, and the parties received the opportunity to verify the information for accuracy. Getting familiar with the key promises made by each party can make it easier to follow along with the debates and critically assess the performance of each party leader. Refer to Lesson 9 in the Elementary/Intermediate resource and Lesson 10 in the Secondary resource for activities related to researching the parties and platforms. LEADERS’ DEBATES LESSON: The ‘Elections Debates’ lesson in your Learning Resources book includes a variety of activities to help analyze the leaders’ debates, including a review of effective debating skills and faulty arguments. To further support this learning, CIVIX has created a new animated educational video – “Logical Fallacies” – that outlines the types of flawed arguments and how to be prepared to detect them. This video will be posted tomorrow on the Classroom Resources page, below the lesson plans.
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