Mock Debate

My class was doing a Mock Debate in Social Studies .We debated   about   if   Phillips Park   was   replaced with apartments, how our community would feel about it. My class was divided into two groups and one half  went   into the middle room and the other half stayed in our classroom. One of the groups was the Housing Development Association. The   group I was in was the Nature Conservancy. They were trying to convince the Housing Developmental Association to not build the apartments because the animal habitats live in the woods by the park. The Housing Developmental Association was trying to build the apartments because they thought that the new families in Mount Vernon could live there. Then it would help more schools that don’t have a good population.

At the end we collected our thoughts and debated. We argued about how it’s not good to build the apartments because it could pollute the air and it also could be bad if the people’s trash that lived in the apartments would get in the river.  It’s good to build the apartment because there would be a daycare in the apartment for the children that need it. I have really enjoyed social studies this year with the debate.