<div dir="ltr">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!). </div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font color="#674ea7" face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2">Laura M. LaChappelle</font></b></div><div><font color="#073763" face="Verdana" size="2"><b></b></font> </div><div><font color="#073763" face="Verdana" size="2"><b>Jackson High School</b></font></div><div><font color="#073763">Social Studies Department Chair</font></div><div><font color="#073763">Director of Speech & Debate</font></div><div><font color="#073763">National Honor Society Chapter Adviser</font><font color="#073763"><br></font></div><div><font color="#073763">Rho Kappa Social Studies Honor Society Adviser<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Jeffrey Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmill126@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmill126@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_8342504047754777035inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div class="m_8342504047754777035inbox-inbox-F3hlO"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi, everyone,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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. <span style="font-size:12.8px">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.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div><div class="m_8342504047754777035inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf"><div>I have four primary purposes of sending cases to the state listserv.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="m_8342504047754777035inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_8342504047754777035inbox-inbox-F3hlO"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><u>1) I want Georgia public forum teams to model positive evidence ethics.</u> 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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><u>2) It gets novice debate back to its purpose - </u><u>the division is not about winning, but learning</u><b>. </b> 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. <span style="font-size:12.8px">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.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><u>3) Novices should have a level playing field.</u> 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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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. </div></div></div></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div class="m_8342504047754777035gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal">Jeffrey Miller</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal">Marist School</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal">Director of Speech & Debate</div></div></div>
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