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If you have Microsoft PowerPoint 97 or later installed on your computer, you can download and view the PowerPoint slides from your presentation, debate, and reading classes. Use these slides to fill any gaps in your notes and to help you study.

"Speaking for Achievement" (Book 1)

----- PowerPoint Slides ----- Chapter 1: "Simple Conversation" Chapter 2: "Solving Problems with Conversation" Chapter 3: "Descriptive Conversation" Chapter 4: "Building a Biographical Speech" Chapter 5: "Building a Narrative Speech" Chapter 6: "Building a Persuasive Speech" Chapter 7: "Apples or Oranges? ...A Debate Primer" Chapter 8: "Yes, but..." Chapter 9: "Debate Duos"

"Speaking for Success" (Book 2)

----- PowerPoint Slides ----- Chapter 1: "Goals and Dreams" Chapter 2: "Roundtable Discussion" Chapter 3: "Current Events" Chapter 4: "'I Wonder' Speeches" Chapter 5: "Cause-and-Effect Speeches" Chapter 6: "Marketing 101" Chapter 7: "Quarreling vs. Debating" Chapter 8: "Debate Round I" Chapter 9: "Debate Round II" "Methods of Presentation for Gifted Students" "Presentation Tools at Your Fingertips" "Outrageous Organization" "Debate 101"

Fifth Grade Debate

----- Fall 2009 ----- "Concept Review: Spring Semester" (Week 1) "Fact Debate Simulation" (Week 2) "Value Debate Simulation" (Week 4) "Policy Debate Simulation" (Week 6) "Briefs and Flowcharts" (Week 8) "Applying Refutation Strategies" (Week 11) "Intro to Model U.N." (Week 19) "Model U.N.: Sample Position Paper" (Week 21) ----- Spring 2010 ----- "What is Debate?" (Week 1) "Logos, Ethos, and Pathos" (Week 3) "Triangular Reasoning" (Week 5) "Fact, Value, Policy" (Week 7) "Introduction to MSPD" (Week 11) "Structures of MSPD" (Week 12) "Refutation Strategies" (Week 17)

Sixth Grade Debate

----- Fall 2009 ----- "Review: Structures of a Parli Round" (Week 1) "Review: Methods of Refutation" (Week 2) "Topicality and Kritiks" (Week 5) "Quantitative Reasoning" (Week 7) "Metaphorical Resolutions" (Week 9) "LD vs. Parliamentary Debate" (Week 19) "Structures of an LD Round" (Week 20) "Mock Trial Refresher" (Week 23) ----- Spring 2010 ----- "Mock Trial 101" (Week 1) "Logical Fallacies" (Week 3) "Players in Parliamentary Debate" (Week 6) "Structures of Parliamentary Debate" (Week 7) "PMC and LOC" (Week 11) "Clash and Rebuttals" (Week 13) "Congenial Presentation" (Week 15) "Turning an Argument" (Week 17) "Topicality Presses" (Week 18) "Winning the Vote" (Week 23) "Elements of Oral Interp" (Week 25)

Journalism

----- PowerPoint Slides ----- "Introduction to Journalism" "Methods of Research" "The Inverted Pyramid" "Entertainment Reviews" "Feature Columns" "Copy Editing"

Junior Reading

----- PowerPoint Slides ----- ----- Junior B ----- "Just Once" "The Stone" "The Martian Chronicles" "Ta-Na-E-Ka" "The Bracelet" "The All-American Slurp" "The Emperor's New Clothes" "Atalanta and Hippomenes" "La Bamba" ----- Junior A ----- "Duffy's Jacket" "Rikki-tikki-tavi" "Three Skeleton Key" "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" "Mother and Daughter" "The Smallest Dragonboy" "A Rice Sandwich" "The Tejano Soul of San Antonio"

iBT TOEFL

----- PowerPoint Slides ----- ----- TOEFL Reading ----- Understand Vocabulary from Context Recognize Referents Simplify Meanings of Sentences Insert Sentences into the Passage Find Factual Information Understand Negative Facts Make Inferences from Stated Facts Infer Rhetorical Purpose Select Summary Information Complete Schematic Tables ----- TOEFL Integrated Writing ----- Note the Main Points as You Read Note the Main Points as You Listen Plan Before You Write Write a Topic Statement Write Unified Supporting Paragraphs Review Sentence Structure Review Grammar ----- TOEFL Independent Writing ----- Plan Before You Write Write the Introduction Write Unified Supporting Paragraphs Connect the Supporting Paragraphs Write the Conclusion Review Sentence Structure Review Grammar

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