Thursday, October 15, 2009

Grading of Student Congress Debate Speeches

This is FYI for Debate Classes:

For the upcoming student congress debate, speeches will be an average score of all presentations and is worth 100 points. In order to receive grade, you must speak on 3 out of the 4 bills. Score is divided into the following:

20--Volume (Can we easily hear and understand what you are saying)
20--Eye Contact (Do you make regular eye contact with the audience)
20--Organization (Does the speech have an introduction, thesis, points of arguments, and conclusion)
20--Evidence (Does the speech use quotes or statistics to provide proof for arguments)
20--Engagement (Does the speaker reference previous evidence from other speakers to prove a point)

Deductions will be made on average score for the following:

Insults or negative remarks towards a particular speaker
Not following directions of Presiding Officer
Poor use of Pariamentary Procedure

1 comment:

  1. Yes there are typos but once you post you cannot go back to edit.

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