Grade 11 Debate Reflection

Please answer the following questions in your learning logs today:

1. Overall, how did you like this assessment format?
2. Overall, how was your learning impacted for the better or worse by this format?
3. Would you do this type of assessment again?
1. If yes, what would you change about the format? Be specific.
4. Please rank our assessment formats so far (1 is the best overall, 5 is least helpful overall):
1. In-class written exam
2. Take home mock internal assessment
3. In-class presentation
4. Voice-over presentation
5. Parliamentary debate

Grade 11 - Debate Information

Debate Information

1. Introducing Parliamentary Debate
2. Rules
3. High School Parliamentary Debate

Format

1. Proposition (yes side) - 7 min
2. Opposition - 7 min
3. Proposition - 7 min
4. Opposition - 7 min
5. Opposition rebuttal - 5 min
6. Proposition rebuttal - 5 min 

Block 3 Teams

Are fossil fuels beneficial for society?

Team 1 - Yes Dylan Alex Joe Nick Anatoly

Team A - No Luke Jin Jay Matt Arpan Elizabeth

Block 4 Teams

Should bullets cost $5,000?

Team 1 - No Christian Sofia Minami

Team A - Yes Eduardo Selina Brian

A Nice Book Review of "Saving Capitalism"

Below is a good read from Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner for economics, on a recent book released by Robert Reich, the former secretary of labor for the US.

Challenging the Oligarchy by Paul Krugman | The New York Review of Books

Anyone hoping for a reversal of the spiral of inequality has to answer two questions. First, what policies do you think would do the trick? Second, how would you get the political power to make those policies happen? I don’t think it’s unfair to Robert Reich to say that Saving Capitalism offers only a sketch of an answer to either question.

Funny Comic

'We The People' for The Global Goals

To learn more about these important goals in a school environment, see here:

1. 2030 Schools
1. Start Here
2. About
3. 2030 Schools Projects

Clearing Up Inelastic Demand Curves and Price Changes

The video below makes two points about inelastic demand curves: the first is specific to inelastic curves and the second is more general to all demand curves.

1. Please keep in mind the differences between NO quantity change and LITTLE quantity change when prices are increased or decreased!
2. Our demand curves CAN show us revenue, but NOT profit...

Arguments From Irrelevant Authority - The New York Times

Arguments From Irrelevant Authority - The New York Times

Look, in general you should argue based on logic and evidence, not authority figures, whenever possible. Sometimes there is technical detail that forces reliance on experts to summarize the evidence — but in that case you should cite experts in the relevant area, not people who are or were important for reasons that have nothing to do with the subject. Arguments from irrelevant authority are a sign that you don’t have a substantive case, you’re lazy, or both.