Instructions for the Astronomy 105 Debate Particapation by the Audience

• You may miss only one of the 8 debates without having a medical or dean's excuse. Attendence will be taken, and you are expected to have read enough about the subject to ask intelligent questuions.

• At the end of the 2 team's presentations and question and answer time, the audience will be asked to write a brief (5 minute) summary of what has been said by both teams, stressing the strong points of each argument and also pointing out their weak points. In the end, you will be asked to rate, on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being best, the overall performance of each team. You will turn all of this in at the end of class.

• Your class participation grade will be based on 1) your attendence, 2) the quality of your understanding of the arguements presented pro and con, and the questions you ask of the teams.

• If you attend all 8 debates, you may drop your lowest attendence score.

• If you miss more than one class debate without a medical excuse you get a 0 for that attendence score and you will lose 5% from one of your own tean presentaions scores (only you lose, not the rest of your team). Be there! Aloha!

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