Speak Up: Speech & Debate Education

February Public Forum: The Topic of Champions

tkmiller97 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:13:45 +0000

This PF topic will be used to determine our State & National Qualifiers, study hard!! Find the arguments and evidence that will make you stand out and get the win!

Find the team evidence at My Student Resources!

February 2012 Public Forum Topic

Resolved: Birthright citizenship should be abolished in the United States.

Articles & Information:

Center for Immigration Studies

Arizona Bill Will Deny Citizenship to Children of Illegal Immigrants: CNN

Can Congress Repeal Birthright Citizenship? LA Times

Birthright Citizenship Looms as Next Immigration Battle

Defining American: Birthright Citizenship & the Original Understanding of the 14th Amendment

Mothers Without Borders: Undocumented Immigrant Mothers Facing Deportation and the Best Interests of Their U.S. Citizen Children

January Case Writing

tkmiller97 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:47:24 +0000

LD & PF log-on to My Student Resources and begin finding the evidence you need to create your cases! Save a copy of the case outline to your documents and begin to fill in the blanks with the best resources you can find!

Policy use the evidence from the blog and find updates to any arguments you need! It will impress judges if you have inherency cards dated 2012!

Take Our Poll Take Our Poll

Congress Legislation for BSU

tkmiller97 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:24:06 +0000

Here are the Dockets!

Rookie Congress Docket – Frank Church Debates

Varsity Congress Docket – Frank Church Debates

Check out the upcoming tournament!

tkmiller97 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:55:03 +0000

Interested to see how the entries for the Pi Kappa Delta Frank Church Tournament at Boise State are looking? Visit HERE!

Select the links for schools, debate or IEs (Individual Events aka. speech) to see how many entries there are in the different events!

December 14 Instructions to Debaters

tkmiller97 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:44:27 +0000

Review your case and all of your files and materials. Remember your last tournament and recall the arguments that you did not feel you had enough evidence to fully address. Begin looking for more recent cards to any outdated evidence in your 1AC, 2AC blocks, and Disadvantages.

In addition to seeing what Open Evidence has to offer, do some in-depth research of your own. You can search lili.org for scholarly articles and check out science news websites and NASA to make sure you are fully prepared for upcoming arguments. You don’t want to have missed any breaking science news that might affect your case.

For example, if you are running mars on the affirmative you better have an inherency answer that post-dates and/or incorporates the launch of the Curiosity rover.

Lets start to get back in serious debate mode – we have limited computer lab time so please take this opportunity seriously in order to succeed!

Case Outlines for LD & PF

tkmiller97 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:29:48 +0000

Lincoln Douglas Affirmative Case Outline

Lincoln Douglas Negative Case Outline

Public Forum Debate Case Outline

January Debate Topics!! Let the Research Begin!

tkmiller97 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:23:38 +0000

Policy debaters go here for instructions.

Public Forum & Lincoln Douglas:

Learn EVERYTHING you can today about your new topic and begin building your cases (need outlines?) and block arguments when you come across great evidence.

Make sure you go to My Student Resources – ask a classmate if you can’t remember the debatepassword

January/February 2012 LD Topic

Resolved: It is morally permissible for victims to use deadly force as a deliberate response to repeated domestic violence.

A few resources:

Whitman Brief

Facts About Domestic Violence

January 2012 Public Forum Topic

Resolved: The costs of a college education outweigh the benefits.

A few resources:

Is a college degree worthless?

Rising costs make climb to higher education steeper?

Surging college costs price out middle class

Prepared Speeches

tkmiller97 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:54:00 +0000

Learn all about your event and begin researching topics!!

Use the links under Pages (to the right)!

U.S. Government: How the Media Uses Polling Data

tkmiller97 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:05:47 +0000

Beginning by reading, The Media is Poll Crazy in Campaign Coverage and answer the Reading Comprehension Questions.

Open the President Poll Questions Assignment Document and go to the Gallup Presidential Job Approval site to complete the project.