I thought my work as an individual and my groups work were both outstanding. In the preparation stage our group was an idea machine, coming up with lots of ideas, most of them ultimately were canned but the best 6 got used well. When we were at the Safari Park we worked really hard to get interviews with workers, and got a lot of footage of animals, while this didn’t help us in our debate it will in the video portion of the project. Then the debate came, and we did well. Even though we lost I think we did well, first for their team was Jayden and he made some compelling points, but then for our team Gabi came up and rebutted and she did well though seemed a little nervous. Then Anatolia came up, and she made some good points and good rebuttals to Gabi’s points, she also seemed nervous. Then I came up and I thought I did pretty well, my points could’ve been stronger and more connected to Gabi’s, and my rebuttals could’ve been more thought out and thorough, but overall I think it went well. Then teva came up and spoke well, but he was very clingy to the idea of the San Diego zoo and how great it was, but he left a vital flaw in his argument, the fact that other zoos are bad and the San Diego zoo is one of the best in the world, and so all we needed to do was point out this fatal flaw, and go over our points and we win, and up comes Griffin to deliver that, and he doesn’t, he makes a couple off topic points and then steps down and we lose. It was a disappointing end and result, but overall I think I did well. Unfortunately there was no video documentation of my debate, but it was a fun event and I enjoyed doing it. I have to thank my teachers for thinking up this project and I hope we do another debate!