Argue to WIn:   Description: Stand up for yourself, know your audience, strategize to be effective.
COMPETENCIES:
  • Personal Development: Community engagement/leadership.
  • Social Reasoning: Critical analysis, Ability to focus on the actions and decisions of others in a practical way to identify both successes and mistakes in an objective & fair manner;
  • Communication: Expression & analysis
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." 
                                                         -- Opening of Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
Day 1:  Collect topics we might disagree about
  • Procedure: person 1 draws a topic and argues for it with at least two arguments (2 minute time limit)
  • Person two (take volunteers)  has to summarize what person 1 has said, then gets to argue against them (refute).(2 minute time limit)

Day 2: Wed
Day 3 . Fri
Day 4:  Mon
Day 5:  Wed
Day 6: Fri
Day 7:  Fri
Day 8: Mon
Day 9: Wed Pick Topics and argue
Day 10: Fri  Pick Topics and argue
​Day 11:  Mon Stage a debate
Classic Greek Topics or Topos
Facts don't change minds-- What Does?
How to argue and win every time
  1. Prepare. Prepare until we have become the argument. ...
  2. Open the Other to receive your argument. ...
  3. Give the argument in the form of story. ...
  4. Tell the truth. ...
  5. Tell the Other what you want. ...
  6. Avoid sarcasm, scorn, and ridicule. ...
  7. Logic is power. ...
  8. Action and winning are brothers.
If your goal is to resolve a conflict, then to “win” might mean you “lose":
  1. Know your facts. ...
  2. Be ready to see the other person's perspective. ...
  3. If you can't be open-minded, at least seem that way. ...
  4. Keep your emotions under control. ...
  5. Remain hopeful that the argument can be resolved. ...
  6. Respect your opponent.