Grade 11 went by sooooooooo fast like really sooooooo fast. Another year in the PLP program…..good times? The debate exibition wasn’t something I was too exited for. Most people would think ” Nolan your a smart and handsome guy who’s a great speaker you should love debating right?”-an average joe. No wrong Ikinda hate it. But I’ll try to stay positive I like the people I did it with… that’s something right? Anyways in this blog post I’ll break down my experince and what I learned.
Hard work, effort, and thick skinis what you need to produce some amazing projects in PLP. If you want to go through all the steps of what it takes to make a project in PLP you clan actually be proud of what comes out of it, this is no different it. Thursday June 14th Seycove hosted PLPs second exhibition..THE BATTLE DOME and this time our presentation was not at all like the last exhibition we produced. Unlike anything we have before we had to perform a live debate that we could only kinda prepare for. This is PLP 11 is there a point of doing it if it’s average apparently.
Everything we did leading up to the exhibition, Lord of the Flies, government, current events… got us ready for the exhibition. Also, Ms Maxwell prepared us,p. She taught us valuable public speaking skills through practice debating in class and other activities.
All three of the PLP teachers made this debate even more of a big deal by not telling us our debate topics only until two minutes before we got up to debate, so you had to be ready for anything. The preparation process was crucial, nobody wanted to look clueless up in front of everyone.
The debate was structured into three rounds, and everyone would at least debate twice. There was a losers bracket and of course a winners bracket. If you won first you would then move on to the semi finals, and then to the finals if you won again. My group made it all the way to the final round.
Overall, I learned that I HATE debates and it is not at all what I thought it would be like, but on the flip side, I’m glad that I got to do it with my friends because they made it more fun. And even though I don’t like debating, it was fun to do as a class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TohNrz5dk94