- Practice with filling out contentions, using Resolved: NASA should be abolished.
- Using anecdotes and personal appeals - forms of pathos - to connect with audience and fill up time in tandem with more logical, factual appeals.
1/11 -
- Preperation for CDA debate, as well as Bedford/Colytown Workshop debate judge preperation.
- Winter Break -
10/26 -
· signposting, labeling contentions
· contentions with subpoints, practice flowing
· look for cross ex and clash
· over the week come up with your points
NEXT WEEK: everyone gets to debate!!!!!!
pro 1: morally compromising and not cost effective, inconsistent with rehabilitation purpose of prison, no way to go back if person is found innocent
con 1: anecdote- prison isn’t that bad, this guy killed someone really brutally, prisons can be enjoyable, amend not eliminate death penalty, unlimited appeals, majority support it
pro 2: just as bad as the person who killed, we don't have that right, finical drain, more than people serving life in prison over time, better spent preventing the crimes, still a punishment, away from home and no freedom
con 2: "teaches them a lesson" for their whole life, but they can't go back into society with that lesson, we shouldn't spend that much but life in prison still wastes money, most people agree with putting people to death, you are born with the right to live but once you kill you should lose that right, most lawyers have 3 years to put together trial, they should be able to find evidence for that, they get food when there are starving Americans
con 1: paying for these people in prison when there are poor people in America, not everyone convicted is killed, getting rid of the penalty doesn’t solve the problem totally, it needs to be amended, not enough of a punishment, its not a great life but its still a life when someone else’s was taken
pro 1: there is no unlimited appeals, nothing higher than Supreme, more evidence to convict than free, “innocent til proven guilty,” usually prosecution trying to find enough evidence to convict, no one wants to go to prison, people don’t like a lot of things, most people don’t like Congress but we’re not getting rid of that
con 2: get rid of unlimited appeals, not every case goes to supreme court, people cam wait that long to get their sentences, a lot of people committing these crimes aren’t really rich so they’re getting the services they wouldn’t otherwise, necessary and proper amendment gives rights to state to pick
pro 2: morally comprising for state, infringes on right to life even if they ended someone’s life, death penalty does fit in with rest of American ideals, inadequate evidence so there’s no way to get back, easier to just get rid of it and get rid of those flaws
10/19 -
· Went over flow chart- passed out example (make longer, Nelousie)
· individual speeches, aff or neg
· Resolved: Jersey Shore is detrimental to America
· Max’s speech, bad example and influence, excessive drinking, arrested, hooking up with strangers
· Jessica- rebutting, teaches you what not to do, shows bad behavior having bad consequences, its relaxing, no harmful affects if you’re mature
· Jack: culture that glorifies drinking and violence, sexual relations with strangers, values that corrupt youth, represent what’s wrong with America, represents what’s wrong with youth
· Working on flushing out arguments, basic statements with evidence and examples
· Use the flow chart as notes, if you forget what you were going to say, you can see what your opponents said and your original contentions, ms mcnamee showed on board
· Helps clear up which contentions are which, make sure you go over all the points
· Holtz: example of good points in show, anecdotes, elaborated, addressed some points of opposition
· Wrapped up with Jacob speaking, rebut and new points, Ryan went for other side
10/5 - First meeting for new club rush members! We had a record attendance of almost 40 kids, which was really exciting. Heres what we did:
1) Introduced the officers and had brief introductions.
2) Discussed CDA. CDA is the CT Debate Association that Staples competes in once a month on Saturday.
3) Explained contentions. Contentions are the core of a debate speech, a speakers argument. They are like a CAPT paragraph in that they are generally a declarative statement followed by supporting evidence to back them up.
4) Speaking practice! We had some new members come up and demonstrate some contentions they had for the topic Resolved: That freshmen ought not to have rights.
9/21 - We had a great second meeting of the year today. Heres what we did:
1. Talked about bake sale, who is bringing what and who can leave early to set up/sell
2. Went over debate timing, what each speech is supposed to do
3. Cross structure, flowing question, trapping the opponent, plan them out beforehand
4. Start broad with something they have to agree to, then get more descriptive until they prove their own point wrong or agree with your point
5. Working together on a cross ex, jobs and economy, 500 million should be spent on making jobs
a. Are jobs good for America?
b. To make money spend money?
c. FDR spent money and made money?
d. Isn’t it true that 1% of population owns 99% of money?
e. They can spend some of that money?
6. Then go on and say in your next speech that they agreed with you
7. Going over rebuttal speeches, more tearing down your opponent then setting up your own
8. Contentions, my points, their points, why mine our better, if you’re the last speaker, you can really say what you want with restrictions, no new points in rebuttals, no new contentions
9/14 - First meeting of the year!
· Gave out schedules
· Got email list
· Officer introductions
· “what you think you might like”
· what the topics are like
· first speaker (setting up arguments, planning it out) and second speaker (tearing the other side down, proving them wrong, more improv) descriptions
· novice vs. varsity, pros and cons as well as skill levels
· how we did as a team last year (pretty dang well)
· look at website (this one!)
· one minute around the room speeches, most influential person in the world
· comments on speeches
