The Debate Speech

Your team should take time to study the claim that you are supposed to prove. Each member of your team will write a debate speech. Each member's debate speech should be a different and unique reason why your claim is true. For example, let's say this was your team's claim:

CLAIM: Smoking is an unhealthy habit that should not be practiced. 

As a team, you want to come up with different reasons each member of your team can have to write a speech on. So, let's say your team comes up with these important reasons:

REASONS: 1) Smoking can cause lung cancer
                     2) Smoking can cause gum disease
                     3) Smoking can harm others who are around by second-hand smoke
                     4) Smoking can harm a baby if a woman is pregnant 

If these are the four most important reasons your group comes up with, then each member on your team would write a speech on one of the four reasons. EACH SPEECH NEEDS TO BE UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHERS. There should be FOUR paragraphs in each debate speech:

I. Introduction/Generalization/Claim 
* Your first paragraph should begin with generalization on your topic to get your audience familiar
* You should end your introduction with your team's CLAIM

II. Your Main Reason/Support for Your Claim
* Here is where you will focus on your unique reason why your team's claim is true
* Need at least TWO authentic sources CITED in your debate speech - either a direct
   quote/summary/paraphrase of each source; look for studies, statistics, definitions, etc.

III. Your Defense against Counter-Argument 
* Briefly explain a counter-argument that could be used against you
* Explain WHY that counter-argument is WRONG

IV. Conclusion
* Summarize your debate speech
* What was your team's claim again? Why is your team's claim correct?