This year we decided to try and have some debates. Why we came to this idea was because many people were bored and didn’t like having to do project, finish it then another project right after. So someone suggested the idea that we do debates. So what we did was we wrote down a bunch of ideas on the whiteboard about interesting things that we would like to debate about. We each would then take our side for the debate and study our side for a day or two then comeback a talk about our thoughts about each subject and discuss what we though. The two topics that we have discussed so far was, capital punishment and the US intervention in Libya. We also have been trying to fit in a debate about when a child becomes and adult but we have had a busy schedule.
The first debate that we did was the debate about capital punishment. What we did was we each chose sides, those who supported it and those who didn’t (though some people decided to argue against what they actually believed to see the other side). We then spent the next couple of days researching what happened in capital punishment and what the circumstances were for a person to receive capital punishment. We then each got a partner from the other side and did sort of a mini debate with that person. Once we did that for a little we all gathered in our sides. We then debated about each side. It was very interesting because Anthony, who didn’t believe in capital punishment, was going for it in this debate and was sort of sabotaging what they were saying by how it was good to kill people. Even though there was sort of humor floating around when we were debating it was a very interesting debate and was very interesting to see each side.
The most previous debate we had was about the US involvement in Libya. We broke up into sides, one where the people believed that we shouldn’t have involved ourselves in the situation, and the other where it was a good idea to help a country in need. This could have been a very interesting debate but, not very many people did research and it ended up where one side was saying that it was a good idea because the country needed help then the other side not really saying anything and it ended in about five minutes. I think that the main reason this debate didn’t go well was because people didn’t research their topic, I believe it could have been a very interesting topic and we could have gotten many different points of view but alas, there was no research done and it flopped.
