Purpose: After engaging in a debate, evaluate your participation as a listener and speaker through a written response. Summary: In this assignment, you will work with your class, a partner, or a teacher to determine a topic for debate. You will choose roles, prepare for the debate, and conduct a debate.

Debate Resolution: Choose a debate topic that is important to your community. The topic should be presented in the form of a resolution. For example, you might choose to debate the following resolution: "School uniforms should be required for all students." In each debate, one side will argue in favor of the resolution, and the other side will argue against the resolution.

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.