[GFCA] Novice Public Forum Resources for September/October

[Laura LaChappelle]

Thank you for sharing these, Jeffrey--I appreciate you sharing your efforts
with all of us, and look forward to sharing this with my novices at our
next practice (all but two of my team members this year are novices, so
this is very helpful!).

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*Laura M. LaChappelle*

*Jackson High School*
Social Studies Department Chair
Director of Speech & Debate
National Honor Society Chapter Adviser
Rho Kappa Social Studies Honor Society Adviser

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Jeffrey Miller <jmill126 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> I have attached an affirmative case and a negative case on the
> September/October Public Forum resolution.   I decided to send this email
> after a lot of thought regarding the purpose of novice public forum
> divisions and how that compares to how we approach the novice policy
> divisions.
>
> In Novice Policy, we give a packet that every first-year debater has to
> use in an effort both to encourage debaters to choose policy debate and to
> make teaching easier.  The goal of the packet is to make debates better--in
> terms of competition, but more importantly, in terms of educational value.  So
> many times novice debates fall apart after the 1AC/1NC (or in PF the
> constructives)  because a team will reads an argument their opponents have
> never heard and don't have a block to, and in that uncertainty, the
> debaters just freeze.
>
> I have four primary purposes of sending cases to the state listserv.
>
> *1) I want Georgia public forum teams to model positive evidence ethics.*
> Seeing what a case looks like and how one is constructed can start students
> off the right footing and help them make good, ethical decisions about
> cases down the road.  No card is paraphrased in the reading of this case -
> that's because we want to promote good evidence ethics.
>
> *2)  It gets novice debate back to its purpose - **the division is not
> about winning, but learning**. * I'm not worried about other teams having
> my students' novice arguments. Instead, I'm excited because I know teams
> can better prepare for the arguments, resulting in more clash in the
> debates and a better educational experience for all the students involved. Novice
> debates may still fall apart in the end (Summaries & Final Focuses) but at
> least the rebuttals will be better.  I am not suggesting everyone use these
> case versions, but I want to promote a community that encourages learning
> over competition in novice divisions.
>
> *3) Novices should have a level playing field.*  If cases become
> mainstreamed, it could help novices get started (near) the same starting
> line.  It could also help establish a JV division for the event. Public
> Forum is now in its 15th year, and a JV division may be long overdue.
>
> You are welcome to have your novice teams read the cases or just use them
> in practice - but I thought it would be nice for public forum to emulate
> some of the successful policy debate teaching tools to make our event
> better.
>
> I am constructing a few other novice cases, including a Space BMD
> affirmative and a China Diplomacy negative so teams can prepare multiple
> arguments on the topic.  I will email those as well hopefully by next week
> but wanted to send our first wave before the first tournament.
> --
> Jeffrey Miller
> Marist School
> Director of Speech & Debate
>
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