1. Welcome to Humanities Class With “STOLIS”!
TUESDAY, 11/29
Please sit at a table with your debate team partners!
Take out your Prompt Statements: Get ready to analyze your statements and discuss your arguments…
Welcome to Humanities Class With “STOLIS”!

2. Stoll/Solis debates on civil liberties:
But first!
Take five minutes to fill-in your Process Journals based on what you accomplished yesterday! Think about…
What THREE specific things did you learn or accomplish…
“I realized that the death penalty should be abolished because…”
“I decided to write the opening statement since…”
What TWO specific things will you research or work on…
“I am going to look into the Electoral College by…”
“I plan on writing an outline for my first argument that includes…”
Get it initialed by Stoll or Solis

3. Analyzing Statements:
There are four steps you can take to properly break down a prompt statement
Identify key terms
Define key terms
Connect to other laws or cases
Apply to your own stance

4. Analyzing Statements: EXAMPLE
“School dress code policies that limit how students dress are constitutional.”

5. Analyzing Statements: EXAMPLE
“School dress code policies that limit how students dress are constitutional.”
First: Take some time to…
Identify key terms
Define key terms
Connect to other laws or cases
Apply to your own stance

6. Analyzing Statements: Identify
“School dress code policies that limit how students dress are constitutional.”
Identify key terms

7. Analyzing Statements: Identify
“School dress code policies that limit how students dress are constitutional.”
Identify key terms

8. Analyzing Statements: Define
Explain a dress code policy
Give specific examples of dress code limits
“School dress code policies that limit how students dress are constitutional.”
Define what it means if something is constitutional
Identify key terms
Define key terms

9. Analyzing Statements: EXAMPLE
“School dress code policies that limit how students dress are constitutional.”
Next: Take some time to…
Identify key terms
Define key terms
Connect to other laws or cases
Apply to your own stance

10. Analyzing Statements: Connect
Explain a dress code policy:
Long Beach USD / Sparks MS (NV)
Give specific examples of dress code limits:
Quot. by Bill Clinton / Student Testimony
“School dress code policies that limit how students dress are constitutional.”
Define what it means if something is constitutional:
Tinker v. Des Moines ICSD
Identify key terms
Define key terms
Connect to other laws or cases

11. Analyzing Statements: Apply
NEG: Limits individuality
AFF: Improves performance.”
AFF: Dress codes improve student safety.
“School dress code policies that limit how students dress are constitutional.”
NEG: Students/teachers do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
Identify key terms
Define key terms
Connect to other laws or cases
Apply to your own stance

12. Analyzing Statements: Your turn!
In your groups, use these steps to break down your own statement!
Identify key terms
Define key terms
Connect to other laws or cases
Apply to your own stance