Voting Debates
Debate themes and Teams.

Two good descriptions of how a debate works can be found on the web The first by James Tomlinson describes the format of the classic Lincoln-Douglas debates. The second prepared by Education World gives some strategies for debaters to use to increase their persuasiveness.

Because the time we have is limited to 24 minutes per debate, we will use the following format adapted from the Education World site.

It is best if each team studies the different startegies on the Education World page, and chooses 1 or two as their debate preparation strategy.

When

Debates will be held in class on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008.

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