Congress+Legislation

Competitors in Student Congress: Attached are the bills and resolutions for the upcoming tournaments. These are posted for you about a week in advance to give you time to do your research and prepare your outlines and speeches. PLEASE make sure you come to the tournaments prepared to speak. While Congress is an event that encourages participants to advance the debate by speaking about issues presented by previous speakers, you should not write all of your speeches while sitting in the Congress session. Just as competitors in all of the other debate events have to write their cases ahead of time to get started, so should you. Add to your prepared speeches/outlines the arguments your peers make in their speeches during the session, but make sure you have a solid basis before you get to the tournament. We need your help to make sure you are learning the skills which will help you reach the State and National levels and DO WELL there. Please see you coach if you have any questions.

NOTE: Speeches you give should be ones that you, yourself, write. You are in essence writing a mini oration, and it should be one that is authored by you. Reading speeches that you found on the Internet is against the rules, as you are plagiarizing someone else's work. Violation of this will result in disqualification from the tournament.

Thank you. Mrs. Peebles, Director

PACKET FOR NATIONAL QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT - March 1, 2014