Significant story-lines, settings, characters, props etc. Once this semester you will participate in a group debate. Your opponents will be another group of 4 students from the class. There will be time for team collaboration between each movement of the debate. Obviously, you can't predict precisely what your opponent's case will be, so you cannot fill out your responses to them beforehand.
Cases ought to be as clearly articulated and understood as possible.
You can't win a debate if your opponent and judges can't make sense of your argument. That only counts against you. I will discuss case construction in class and as necessary. Class member's judgment will be used only to assess themselves, and not debate participants. Class judges' flow charts and rubrics will count as their quiz for that day .