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Mastering Competitive Debate

Grades 9–12

The leading debate text for competitive formats

A Companion Website offers many debate resources—research sites, open-source videos, and quizzes.

A comprehensive resource for all forms of competitive debate—public forum, Lincoln-Douglas debate, world schools, mock trial, and congressional and parliamentary debate—written and reviewed by a team of accomplished debate teachers, nationally-known debate directors and judges, and award-winning debate coaches.

A Debate Across the Curriculum chapter links debate and communication skills to project-based learning and provides tips and resources for adding debate to a variety of classes and disciplines and a Watch It feature points students to an open educational resource video on the chapter topic and builds both background and contextual knowledge.

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Features

Learning by Doing Activities

Build the vocabulary and critical thinking skills necessary for debate success through inquiry-based exercises.
Novice debaters will understand debate history, theory, and ethics and gain skills in argumentation, rebuttals, defense, flowing, and research methods.
Experienced debaters will refine research skills and develop new approaches to unique case construction, polish cross-examination skills, practice writing well-defined blocks, and improve vocabulary.
An On File feature stimulates critical thinking and encourages textual analysis through projects requiring close reading and online research.

Teacher Materials

Lesson Planning & Instructional Support

A Teacher Guide includes objectives and extension activities for each chapter, reproducible chapter exercises and chapter quizzes, an answer key, coaching tips and checklists, tournament templates, and grading suggestions.
A digital ELL Resource provides differentiated instruction and support through text frames, lesson plans, graphic organizers, purposeful grouping, and cooperative learning activities.
A Companion Website offers an ample supply of debate resources—research sites, open-source videos, and quizzes.
Robust appendices provide competition tips, debate topics, sample ballots, and transcripts from the 2018 national tournament.
Comprehensive, reproducible templates scaffold case construction for each type of debate and offer step-by-step guidance for developing speeches and arguments.