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Nature Debate Sentence Starters

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Nature Debate Sentence Starters

Students debating about nature

🌱 Part 1: Making Your Arguments

1. Choose your debate position and circle one:

Affirmative: Nature primarily heals and restores

Negative: Nature primarily destroys and challenges

2. Complete these sentence starters to build your opening argument. Use evidence from 47 Degrees:

Opening Statement:

Our team strongly believes that nature _________________________ because _________________________.

First Supporting Point:

In 47 Degrees, we see clear evidence of this when _________________________.

Second Supporting Point:

Furthermore, the text demonstrates _________________________ which proves _________________________.

3. Select the most persuasive language techniques you will use (tick all that apply):

Rhetorical questions

Emotive language

Statistics or facts from the text

Personal anecdotes

Expert opinions or character insights

🗣️ Part 2: Rebuttals and Responses

4. Practice responding to the opposing team. Complete these rebuttal sentence starters:

Respectful Disagreement:

While the opposing team makes an interesting point about _________________________, we must consider _________________________.

Counter-Evidence:

However, in 47 Degrees, _________________________ actually shows us that _________________________.

Questioning Their Logic:

The opposing team's argument overlooks the fact that _________________________ because _________________________.

5. Write one strong piece of textual evidence you could use to counter the opposing team's likely arguments:

🎯 Part 3: Concluding Statements & Extensions

6. Prepare your closing argument using these sentence starters:

Summarising Your Position:

In conclusion, the evidence from 47 Degrees overwhelmingly supports _________________________ because _________________________.

Final Impact Statement:

This debate matters because understanding nature's role helps us _________________________.

7. Extension for Advanced Learners: Complete these complex argument structures:

Concession and Counter:

Although we acknowledge that _________________________, the more significant truth revealed in 47 Degrees is _________________________.

Anticipating Counter-Arguments:

Some might argue that _________________________, but this interpretation fails to consider _________________________ as demonstrated when _________________________.

8. Reflection: After the debate, complete this self-assessment:

The strongest part of my argument was: _________________________

I could improve by: _________________________

The opposing team's most convincing point was: _________________________

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