It is currently the 15th week of school! NOOOO DEBATES THIS WEEK! So on Monday, we were all freaking out about debates. We were really nervous for it and were still in the midst of making our actual speeches. We confirmed with Matt what arguments to use, but we haven't wrote our speeches totally on Monday. Our debate was scheduled for 1st period on Tuesday. Which was really scary considering we were the first group. Here is our group roles
Due to having more than 2 people in our group, only one person was required to do two speeches. I felt confident in beginning the debate and having our first argument, and so Sammie took the two spots. We worked really hard on our debates on Monday night and studied it like crazy. What Happened on Debate Day: We came in looking pretty fresh since we had to dress nice. And we were all really nervous. Sammie and I saw that Natalie didn't have any speech written on Monday, so we both contributed work to make our conclusion for the debate. When we checked in with Natalie, she seemed very overwhelmed with it all. She didn't know what to say for the debate and wasn't confident. We gave her the speech that we wrote, but she was still scared and nervous. It was difficult calming her down, for she ended up crying a bit. After she was calmed down, we were ready to start the debate. Sammie and I practiced a lot before hand and we timed it several times. We were to be under 2 minutes. When it came to the actual debate, we all stumbled a bit and were extremely nervous. There were many cameras and videos and recordings happening, along with the audience. It was pretty scary but I was able to handle it okay. I tried speaking slow enough where they could hear me well and understand better, but I tried speaking fast enough where I would get all of it in under 2 minutes. It was difficult to do, but I thought that I and everyone else in the group delivered the speech well. Sammie did a great job on the 2nd argument and we both worked together to make the rebuttal, using the research paper that we already had to make a speech in the break time. She did great as well as Natalie and I was proud of them. Debate Aftermath: I felt bad that Natalie was so overwhelmed about everything. I wondered if it was our fault that she didn't know her part. I don't want to say what or how things went, but I just feel sorry that she wasn't that happy with how she did or with the whole project in general. We may do the live debate, and we may not. But I would definitely be open to doing it again, just because I feel as well as my partners feel that we all could have done a lot better. Yes we did win, by 6 points. With our score at 14 - 21 or something. But I still think we could have done a lot better in delivery and with our conclusion, arguments, etc. We could've overall been a lot stronger. Hopefully we can have a chance to do it again, but yes our debate went well. I'm proud of my team and myself. I was so surprised that I ended up convincing myself that athletes are not overpaid. Everyone is on the yes side, even myself a few weeks ago. But after changing, I feel that it has worked out for the better and I am almost fully convinced that they aren't overpaid. It was strange changing my internal feelings and opinions on something just for a project. But yes I was glad to be put up against that challenge. I was able to change my view on things to work for the better. How strange. I am proud of our team! Poster - We are trying to get all our poster checks done by the end of the week. We had another series of critique on Monday for our photoshop posters. I was proud of our posters and I need to finalize it by Friday. Critique - Change Libertarianism part, change introduction, change title, change background of LeBron James background, change graph, put more spaces between the areas of words. Preparation for Exhibition Do prep for exhibition! I am apparently making the videos for the debates on exhibition night. Must do that as well. I must combine all the footage and sound recordings, as well as make the whole debate video. Successes this week: Our Debate Difficulties this week: Our Debate In general I have never felt so stressed. This week was a pain. It was half great, half horrible. Sometimes the school work gets too much, like overboard. Glad that debates is over, but there's still a lot to do. Feels like a lot is being crammed into our last two weeks before break. A LOT TO DO.
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We currently wrapped up the 14th week of school, awww.... THINGS WE DID THIS WEEK Essay - We finished our Essay fully this week. It was yet to be put in the required MLA formatting, but we gladly finished both our essay and our graphs. We had 11 pages full of good arguments that we were ready to put into our debate. Debates - This was our last week for debate and my team and I were really nervous about how our performance would be. We had our essay finished, and we were in the midst of writing our full out speeches and deciding our individual arguments, rebuttals, and parts for the debate Arguments - Below is our arguments. Sammie got some help from her Aunt who knows a lot about debating. Her aunt kindly edited our paper and we were able to prioritize which arguments we should use. We will start writing our speeches next week. Posters - Based on the information on how essay, we were to make a poster representing our side of the debate topic.
Difficulties this week: I had difficulties this week trying to work on both debate, posters, and our rocket. I feel really stressed out this time of the year since it's so close to exhibition. There's a lot of stuff to do, but debate is what's really making me worry. I am very nervous for that and I'm still not 100% sure on my speeches for this. Sammie and I were both really scared for going first on Tuesday. It felt like there were high expectations on our team coming from Matt. I was worried for that, and the poster was very unexpected. I didn't think we'd be doing a poster until this week. It was hard getting everything done in when it was really last minute. Successes this week: I finished making the poster! It was really last minute and I am very proud of the first draft I had. I was glad that people gave nice and helpful critique and I was excited to see how it would look like in photoSHOP. I was also very satisfied with our essay. I was surprised that we actually were able to write a longer one than our first one after changing the sides. Surprisingly I convinced myself to believe in the "NO" side for our debate, and it definitely worked. Goals for next week: Do a good debate! (win) Finish poster! Help out with exhibition planning! Do more extra weekly challenges! DO NOT PROCRASTINATE |
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