Debate final exam

What is a resolution

• A specific type of argument

• A type of debate

• The rules for debate

• Another word for the topic of the debate

What is a claim?

• The topic of the debate

• A point that you make to support your side

• A style of debate

• Another word for the evidence you use

What is data?

• Another word for the evidence you use to prove your point

• The point you are trying to make

• How you know you won the argument

• Something only varsity debaters use

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

A warrant is defined as:

• The structure for an argument

• The evidence used to support the argument

• why your argument matters

• The logic and reasoning behind how your evidence proves your claim

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

An impact is defined as:

• The evidence used to support the claim

• Why your argument matters

• The specific points you use to prove your side

• A method for determining who has the burden of proof.

Lincoln Douglass focuses on:

• Current events, maybe domestic or international

• What should the Federal Government do to fix an issue

• Morality and ethics

• abstract questions about the world

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

Policy Debate focuses on:

• Morality and Ethics

• Current events, they maybe international or U.S. based

• multiple different topics of a political nature

• What should the Federal Government do to fix an issue

Public Forum debate focuses on:

• Current events, they maybe international or U.S based

• Morality, ethics, and philosophy

• What should the Federal government do to fix an issue

• Multiple topics about a variety of issues

Congressional Debate focuses on

• Current events, they maybe international or U.S based

• Ethics and morality

• What should the Federal government do to solve an issue

• Multiple topics of a political nature

Resolved: The United States should significantly increase its funding and/or regulation of education is an example of what type of topic

• Congress

• Lincoln Douglass

• Policy

• Public Forum