Debate to me is a very interesting way to get points across since you actually take turns to give your own opinions, I have always liked the idea of having the skill to persuade people for any side since usually when I make points they are from my own personal opinion. Knowing that in this project we will be working more and more towards that goal I want to try and gain more confidence in my debating skills outside of school because as much as I might prepare at home I will still need to work on being able to persuade a whole room and make sure I’m keeping the rooms attention at the same time.

Since this is my first time doing a project based around debate I want to hit the ground running since it’s a new topic for me. After watching the movie Great Debaters I get a sort of sense on how much goes into an actual debate. My main goal will be to be able to fully persuade someone of a topic that I personally do not agree with, I believe that if I can overcome my own sense of necessity towards using my personal opinions I can properly learn how to debate in a real life scenario. Most of my work in past PLP projects comes from my opinion on my own work or my opinion on the actual process of the work so it will be a big change for me to try and use direct information that I would be learning 90 seconds before I am expected to go up and try to show and explain my reasoning.

I want to properly be able to analyze each argument that is made from both sides for each of my own future arguments since almost everything that happens in a debate is related to the debates final topic. Everything that changes will be useful to me because it’s the differences in opinions that can improve my debating skills, my plan will to be to practice mock debates with my dad at home so I can further improve the skill I hope to achieve by the exhibition.