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.