In the following link you will find the pool of case studies that we will use for this semester's argumentative vocabulary essays. This is the case study list from the 2017-2018 National High School Ethics Bowl competition, of which I am the sponsor/coach for the South team. The NHSEB is coordinated through the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina.
We will use these case studies as the foundation for the issues and arguments that will be featured on our vocabulary test/essays for the rest of the year. Each Monday of the week of a vocabulary test, you will find out which of these case studies you will be addressing on that week's test. Like last semester, I anticipate 7-8 vocabulary units this semester. There are 15 cases, so we will only use about half of them. Non-Honors classes will see the case studies in numerical order starting this week with #1, so you will probably only need to know the first 7-8. Honors classes will not receive the cases in order, therefore, any pre-work done will require you to familiarize yourself with all of the cases. You will notice as you read each case that there are a series of "study questions" but no question within the case itself, just a situation/predicament that is addressed. On test day, I will ask you a specific question in order to guide your formation of your argument. The question will not come verbatim from the study questions, but they will still provide you with solid guidance.
For this week's first test of second semester, we will begin with Case #1: Bodily Identity Integrity Disorder. This applies to both honors and non-honors.
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