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July 16, 2005

FRIDAY - Swinging Into High Gear

HS PUBLIC DEBATE: Two lectures, one on defending a proposition and one on attacking a proposition, and two debates. Research assignments in the evening.

MIDDLE SCHOOL DEBATE: Student presentations were fopllowing by two debates this morning. After lunch there was a computer research lesson and then two more debates. Homework included research and case construction/

HS POLICY DEBATE: Morning lecture on the topic as Sarah Snider discussed negative possibilities and strategies. After lunch students met in their small research groups with individual faculty to determines their research topics for the upcoming days. The advanced debaters were very ambitious in their plans. Small group instructional sessions were held on different subjects for different levels, including advanced flowing, stock issues, and speech obligations. After dinner every student was involved in a practice debate.

OVERALL: Seems like an excellent group of students, very focused and very smart.

Lookm for photos and movies to be coming soon.

Alfred "Tuna" Snider

Posted by debate at July 16, 2005 02:25 PM

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