Field Trip Debate

Debate is an interesting and sophisticated  form of communication. We learned about debate for about 2-weeks as we did a mock debate on vegetarianism. I was assigned a new debate topic, be it resolved that field trips do not represent an educational value equal to their cost. I was assigned the affirmative side AKA field trips suck side. I was also put into a group with Michael, Youni and Ben. We assigned roles and I ended up with the third speaker as the final rebuttal and summarizer for my team, Michael was the very first speaker, Youni was the second speaker on our team and Ben was our research guy.

  

Our team started researching right away and we came up with 6 points are best ones being that not all kids can afford field trips and a lot of field trips aren’t educational they are just fun. After my group finished are research I wrote a summarization.After the summarization I began to think of what they might say so we could rebuttal their arguments. Are best rebuttal was the Be it resolved statement because we knew the other team was going to talk about the great experience but that’s not what we are arguing we are arguing the educational value to its cost. Now since we were prepared it was time for the debate. 

Michael started with strong opening points and hammering home that the be it resolved statement was about education not experience. Youni was are second speaker and made are best point on how some kids can’t afford field trips and cheaper options are available. Finally it was me and I made some mistakes when I was making my rebuttals and forgot to tell my sources for the info. Other then that minor hiccup I was successful and engaging the audience and getting my ideas across. We ended winning the debate. 

Overall this debate project was engaging and I learned a great deal about my subject and debate.