Battle of the Books

This past Tuesday a fellow classmate and i competed in battle of the books. Our book was called "Before I Die" and even though we didn't win; i think  we had some very good arguments and perhaps if we hadn't been up against the always loved "Paper Bag Princess" we might have won. To prepare we researched the question what is a classic? because the topic of the debate was what book would become a classic in 100 years. So, we started with that and then using the guidelines we found (stuff about the ability to relate and timeless themes) we connected it to our book. We also made a video about our book so that the audience would know vaguely what our book was about. I'll post it at the bottom of this post. During the actual debate we took my laptop up and typed our game plan and discussed our defense arguments  which worked really well because the other team had to whisper (which of course allowed everyone to hear their arguments . Even though we ultimately lost, i think my debating skills have improved from this experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vz6TVLLRzE