Debate Lessons | General Policy Debate | The Structure of the Debate | The Affirmative Case | The Negative Arguments |
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What is Lincoln-Douglas
The type of debate that centers around morals and values?
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Who is Ms. Arnold
Your current Cypress Bay teacher/debate coach for debate 1 Honors
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What is the first affirmative constructive (1AC)
The first affirmative speech is called what?
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What is the Affirmative
One team side that stole their name from the military word for “yes” or "pro" as said by radio operators.
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What is 4
The total amount of speeches that the negative team gets?
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What is Public Forum
This type of debate is similar to policy in terms of the number of people to a team, but doesn't last as long
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What is "should"
Word that is most often used in a “claim of policy”.
ex) would have, could have, ________ have |
What are the Rebuttals
The last four speeches of the debate are called the...
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What is False
True or False: The Affirmative team does not get the first and last speech of the debate.
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What is 2NR
This is the abbreviation for the last negative speech
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Who is Abraham
The person's first name from the "L" half of LD debate
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What are a claim, a warrant, and evidence
These are the three parts to make a coherent argument.
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What is Negative
Should I choose to oppose a certain action, the other team would tell me to stop being so, what?
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What is 5
To determine the amount of time the affirmative gets in the rebuttal, I need only look at my fingers or toes.
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What is 8 minutes
This is the length of the Negative's first speech in Policy
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What is the Grand Crossfire
The name of the last cross-examination debate in a Public Forum debate where all members of each side stand up to question each other.
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What is Two.
It takes just as many people to tango as it does to make up a policy team
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What is the Negative Block
The part of the debate where one team gives two consecutive speeches
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What is Resolution
The part of the affirmative case that states the current problem in the current system or “status quo”
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What is False
The 2NR typically goes for as many arguments as possible to overburden the affirmative (True or False)
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Who are Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
The are the first and last names of the two people that LD debate was named after.
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What is Five
There are usually only this many people in a typical policy debate round including Judge.
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What is 8 minutes
The amount of time one speaker gets during a constructive speech in Policy
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What is the Plan
The part of the affirmative case that intends to solve the problem. ex) We need a ______ of action
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What is False
The negative block allows for new arguments in both speeches to make the job of the 1AR hard. (True or False)
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