Readings
- Arguments and Arguing: The Products and Process of Human Decision Making
- The Toulmin Model
- Various League and Event Resources
Multimedia
- League videos
- State, National, International Tournament videos
Interactive/Collaborative Work
- In-class and debates and speech competitions: Student Congress, Parliamentary Debate, Public Forum, etc
- Team events
- Group Research: group/team event prep
Independent Work
- Individual Events: Original Oratory, Original Advocacy, Thematic Interp, etc. (for more info., please see Critical Content)
- Speech Writing: Toulmin Argumentation method(for more info., please see Critical Content)
- Research: creating shared and private resource databases
Debate Styles
- Cross Examination Assignments- exercises that help students better ask and field questions
- Student Congress (for more info., please see Critical Content)
- Parliamentary Debate (for more info., please see Critical Content)
- Public Forum Debate (for more info., please see Critical Content)
- IEs (for more info., please see Critical Content)
Writing
- Toulmin Graphic Organizers
- Structure of an Excellent Speech Graphic Organizers- formulaic outline for writing a persuasive speech
- Focus Questions- daily bell-work questions
Speakers, trips, other
- 9/23 Workshop
- 10/21 Student Congress Tournament
- 11/4 IE Tournament
- 1/27 Student Congress Tournament (tentative)
- 2/3 IE Tournament (tentative)
- 2/23-2/24 Debate State Quals (tentative)
- 3/3 Student Congress State Quals (tentative)
- 3/9-3/10 IE State Quals (tentative)