Novice Assignment 1

For those students who have passed the interview process and made the first cut, the second cut will be determined on 1 September. You are to have printed the briefs (will be sent to you) on the new resolution, put them in a binder, and have highlighted them. You will be ready to speak intelligently on the upcoming Public Forum Resolution the first day. Those who have their briefs highlighted, make the first cut. Those that don't, don't.

Now, as for the form of debate you will be learning: Public Forum. Designed as a 2-person team, Public Forum debaters debate a resolution that comes out each month. They will be prepared to take either the Pro (Affirmative) or Con (Negative) ground and argue persuasively for either side of the resolution.

Your judges will be lay judges, or some debate coaches. At the end of each round of debate, the judge will determine who was most persuasive. That team gets the win.

Now, as for format of Public Forum, we have three assignments:
1) Novice Assignment 1: Download and familiarize yourself with the format of Public Forum. The link for the two articles is:
Public Forum Debate Packet
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Public Forum Debate Overview

Once you have downloaded and read the two packets, leave a comment with your name on this post.

The next two assignments before the Resolution comes out will be video assignments. We will post shortly, as soon as YouTube gets our uploads filtered.

Good Luck,
~bag