1. Today’s Goals Select topics for the class debate
Begin planning for the class debate

2. Previous successful debate topics
Euthanasia
Free college
Standardized Testing
Prisoner Rehab
Education reform
Teachers bearing arms
Death penalty for juveniles
Citizenship for babies
Influences of Video games
Polygamy
Random drug testing in schools
Single Sex schools
Driving age raised
Nuclear energy
Sexual assault on campus
Homeopathic medicine
GMOS
Capital Punishment
Minimum Wage
Government regulation of cigarettes
Exploration – Underwater and space
Alternative energy sources
Pay for college athletes
NSA Invasion of privacy
Standardized testing/IQ testing
Right to bear arms/gun control
Animals in captivity/zoos
Tablets vs. textbooks in schools
Effects of social media
Cost of college
Animal testing

3. Your Proposed Topics Effects of social media Cross dressing schools
Death penalty for juveniles
Animals in zoos
Nuclear energy/nuclear waste
Animal testing/animal welfare
Right to bear arms
Euthanasia
Cost of college
Death penalty
Tablets vs. textbooks

4. Group Activity- Debate Topics
In groups of 2-5 people
Select the three topics you would be most interested in discussing in the class debate
Send one of your group members to write these three topics on the board
Note: You do not have to turn in a sheet of paper for this assignment

5. Group activity- debate planning
In your new debate groups
Spend a few minutes to begin planning your strategies for the coming debate and answer the questions below
What is a topic or speaking point that each group member could use? Which rhetorical appeal might be dominant for that speaking point?
What research could be used to backup each of the above points?
Will your group be using a set order or flexible order? If a flexible order, how will you decide the order during the debate? (You will have very little time for this)
Will you appoint a group leader? If so, who? If not, how will you make decisions during the debate?

6. Homework Continue working on debate preparations
Rhetorical Analysis – Draft 1
500+ words
Due Monday 1-29
Printed and brought to class
Should include your whole introduction and several body paragraphs