Friday, January 22, 2016
Debate of Sparta and Athens
Today I will be reflecting on our debate of which city-state was superior, Athens or Sparta. I believe that for this being our first debate, we did pretty well, however, I think that our working together was not as well as it could have been, and that we could've backed up our arguments better. I think because of this, our arguments had many holes. This meant we were constantly on the defensive, and could hardly ever ask them good questions about their arguments which were well presented, backed up, and hard to rebut. Overall, I believe all did well.
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We will experiment with different debate structures and topics. "Scripting" the rebuttals ahead of time can be counter-productive and hinder attentive listening to the other side during the debate. While it is important to anticipate the other side of the question ahead of time, it is more important to take notes on the given argument during the debate. This contributed to the fact that the arguments were not fully addressed in the rebuttals. As I mentioned in our de-brief, the terms and parameters of the debate and the arguments should have been more fully and precisely stated. HOWEVER for the first time, (and in front of an audience!!) you all did very well.
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