The day has been long, yet we've all walked away with something more (even it was just some additional paper). We began with affirmative casing, flowing, and a discussion of last night's debate. Many learned something slightly new about flowing. Shawnwei experimened with keeping the paper vertical instead of horizontal, while Michelle demonstrated an excellent synopsis of cards in her flow. We then listened to an extremely informative lecture by Mr. Anderson (Happy Birthday!) on globalization, where Ryan asked a few very interesting questions.
After lunch, everyone got to meet with their new Article Groups, where every debater in camp got mixed together, adding more perspective to the topic for all of us.
Back in lab we worked on understanding the value and criterion. While Sam disagreed with Karl on whether or not Societal Welfare could be used as a value on the negative side, we were stunned as Marshall disappeared from one seat to another like a ninja, and Jimmy made him reappear with his invisible hand. Mark asked excellent questions about human worth, and its relevance on either side of the resolution. Hailey also showed excellent initiative with ideas on the government's participation on both sides. We concluded the day with an assignment to have an outline with a value, criterion, thesis, contentions, and four arguments (along with justifications for the value and criterion) due tomorrow. It seems inevitable that we will be writing entire cases very soon!
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