March 11/12: Assign debate roles

Helpful Resources for Today's Class and for Preparing for Debate:

• Link to exemplars for argumentative claims and counterclaims exemplars

Sample Debate Speeches (Videos):

• Sample Debate: SAS Debate  (2013) - Introducing the Proposition (Speaker #1)
• Sample Debate: SAS Debate (2013) - Opposition Speaker #1
• Tutorial for Role of First Affirmative (Proposition) Speaker (Speaker #1)
• Sample Debate: Oppoosition Speaker #1
• Sample Debate Affirmative (Proposition) Rebuttal (Proposition Speaker #2)
• Sample Debate Negative (Opposition) Rebuttal (Opposition Speaker #2)
• Debating Rebuttals Tutorial​
• Sample Debate: Television is a bad influence
• Sample Debate: School Uniforms
• Debate Tips
• Why Debate is Important: “Debating Can Change Your Life” TEDTalk​
  

Topic-Specific Videos to Learn the Topic:

• TEDEd: How Did Hitler Rise to Power? (TED Ed)
  
• Dictators, Tyrants, Authoritarian Government: Despotism (1946 Encyclopedia Britannica Films)
  
• Stalin: Inside the Terror  (BBC)
  
• The World Wars: Mini Bio Joseph Stalin (History Channel)
  
• What is Fascism? (NowThisWorld video)
  
• History Brief: The Rise of Imperial Japan (Reading Through History)
  
• Crash Course World History: WWII (Crash Course w/ John Green)
  
• Crash Course WWII: A War for Resources (Crash Course w/ John Green)

DBQ Packets for your Team’s Research:

• Authoritarian Regimes: Communist Russia (DBQ)
• Authoritarian Regimes: Nazi Germany (DBQ)
• Authoritarian Regims: Fascist Japan (DBQ)

​Tips for preparation:

• Focus on ensuring you have strong evidence to back up your argument (claim and reason(s) you are presenting and/or defending.  
• Know thy enemy!!! Anticipate what your opposing team will say and have prepared counterclaim statements, and evidence/analysis you can use against them in your debate.
• Prepare a speech for up to 2 minutes (not the entire 3 minutes)--this gives you some cushion so that your speech doesn't go over, and allows you to be able to pause for emphasis (...dramatic pause...), allows time to make more eye contact, reference an image on a slide, and/or add to your speech last minute if a new idea or strategic statement occurs to you.