express ideas about a difficult topic convince audience members your opinion is correct practice...
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Judges decided which team best presents their information and best responses to the information from the other team Audience before debate is asked to vote on an issue, then after the debate the audience votes again. If more audience members change to your side, your team winsTRANSCRIPT
HOW TO RUN A DEBATE
What is the Point of a Debate?
Express ideas about a difficult topic
Convince audience members your opinion is correct
Practice research skills
Build communication skills
How is a Debate Scored? Judges decided which
team best presents their information and best responses to the information from the other team
Audience before debate is asked to vote on an issue, then after the debate the audience votes again. If more audience members change to your side, your team wins
How is a Debate Formatted?
1) Team for idea presents opening summary (5 mins)2) Team against idea presents opening summary (5
mins)3) Team for idea presents main reasons why they
are right (3 mins)4) Team against idea presents main reasons why
they are right (3 mins)5) Team for idea response to the other teams
comments (3 mins)6) Team against idea response to the other teams
comments (3 mins)7) Team for idea summaries ideas again (1 min)8) Team against idea summaries ideas again (1 min) A team of 1-2 will be the SPEAKERS, all other
team members are only there for support
How will this Debate Work?
The class will be broken into 4 teams; Two teams will debate each other and the other two teams will be judges, then switch
Team 1: More food production will end world hunger
Team 2: More food production will not end world hunger
Team 3: Changing the DNA of food will end world hunger
Team 4: Changing the DNA of food will not end world hunger
How To Make a REAL Argument?
1) You need real facts! The more information your team has, the more they can give a good reason for their side
Economic, Ethical, Moral, Scientific, Religious, Political, etc…
2) You need to respond to what the other team says! Ignoring the other team means you don’t understand the issue, so why should we believe you???
3) You need to have clear list of things to discuss plus a list of things you think the other team will say!
When will this Debate Happen? Round one will happen next Monday Round two will happen the class
after mid-terms All Teams will be prepared to present
Monday because you will not know which debate will occur that day
The winning team of each debate will get 10 bonus points to their GPA