Speech and DebateOne of my weaknesses is explaining things, so my friend Branigan and I decided to make a debate club. We had our first two debates, and everyone got a chance to debate. We definitely have some work to do, I personally need more practice with debating. Something that I would like to work on right now is knowing what I am speaking about and not being nervous. The reason that I get nervous is because I feel unprepared. If I can be as prepared as possible then I feel like I will be able to prepare better.
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What We've Done |
So far we've got a team of six people together and done two debates. The first debate was about college tuition (whether or not it should be free) Branigan and Ethan were pro and Zane and Brandon were con. The debate went well but the audience thought Branigan and Ethan won the debate. The next debate was about the drinking age (wether it should be lowered to 18 or not) and it was I was on the pro side and Elly was on the con side. Elly ended up winning the debate, but that made sense because she had a speech and debate background. We have also done some public speaking training with Mr. Schneider.
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Next Steps |
We would like to start more debates that are shorter (like total 5min.) and film them. We will use the videos in SSFilms. We need to have a meeting with the group to to tell them whats up and get their opinions.
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