The Voiceworks Balloon Debate

 VOICEWORKS- The Literary Week

Name of the Event: 

     Taking the wind out of sails – The Voiceworks Balloon Debate

Class:  XI                                                                  Day: May 9, 2012

Details about Preliminary and Main Rounds (in points):

1.  Group division: XI A, B, C, will be divided into groups of 4 for conducting the interclass balloon debate.
2.       The premise: A person takes on a particular role and then we imagine that all these characters are together in a hot air balloon that is rapidly falling. One must be thrown overboard to save the others, but who will it be? Each participant must make a speech saying why they should be allowed to stay in the balloon. The rest of the class votes, and the loser is disqualified.
3.       Choosing the character: Each group of four will be given a theme – scientists, literary figures, painters, actors, etc. The teacher can suggest some names under each category and the students will be free to choose any.
4.    The rounds:

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   5. The levels

Intra class: Each group will undergo three rounds and one character will be eliminated in each round. In the end, each hot air balloon will have one winner and the winners will be teamed in another balloon.  The rounds will be conducted once again and the number of winners per class will be brought to four.

Interclass: The class winners will then be teamed up in a balloon (one balloon per class) and an interclass competition will be held – in the courtyard or the amphitheatre.

School level: The final group of four winners will present the debate in the Voiceworks presentation during the Literary Week.

     6.  Judging criteria:

10 - Content (facts and examples)

10 - Organization (introduction, body, conclusion)

10 - Presentation (voice modulation, punctuation

10- Body language (posture, eye contact); 10 - Language (vocabulary, creative expressions)

Total – 50

Suggested Characters for the Debate:

1.     Alexander the Great

2.     Cleopatra

3.     David Beckham

4.     Casanova

5.     Julius Caesar

6.     Elizabeth I

7.     Cher

8.     Leonardo Da Vinci

9.     Caligula

10.  Boadicea

11.  Charlie Chaplin

12.  Michelangelo

13.  Nero

14.  Florence Nightingale

15.  Marilyn Monroe

16.  Mozart

17.  William the Conqueror

18.  Louis Pasteur

19.  Elvis Presley

20.  Beethoven

21.  Martin Luther King

22.  Eva Peron

23.  Diana, Princess of Wales

24.  Thomas Edison

25.  Genghis Khan

26.  Margaret Thatcher

27.  Lassie

28.  Marie Currie

29.  Marco Polo

30.  Queen Victoria

31.  Bob Geldof

32.  Rembrandt

33.  Christopher Columbus

34.  Mother Theresa

35.  Mickey Mouse

36.  Picasso

37.  John F Kennedy

38.  Francis of Assisi

39.  Sir Alf Ramsey

40.  Van Gogh

41.  Mao Tse Tung

42.  Mary Seacole

43.  Maria Callas

44.  William Shakespeare

45.  Mahatma Gandhi

46.  Catherine the Great

47.  Andrew Lloyd Webber

48.  Jane Austen

49.  Richard III

50.  Helen of Troy

51.  Alfred Hitchcock

52.  Orville Wright

53.  Sir Francis Drake

54.  Mary, Queen of Scots

55.  Andy Warhol

56.  Charles Dickens

57.  Henry VIII

58.  Oliver Cromwell

59.  John Lennon

60.  Alexander Fleming

61.  Richard the Lionheart

62.  Marie Antoinette

63.  Madonna

64.  William Harvey

65.  Robin Hood

66.  Napoleon Bonaparte

67.  Brigitte Bardot

68.  Charles Darwin

69.  Charlemagne

70.  Garibaldi

71.  John Wayne

72.  Howard Hughes

73.  Nelson Mandela

74.  Isambard Kingston Brunel

75.  Garfield Sobers

76.  Andrew Carnegie

77.  Winston Churchill

78.  Emily Parkhurst

79.  Donald Bradman

80.  Christopher Wren

81.  Lord Baden-Powell

82.  Albert Einstein

83.  Jesse Owens

84.  Pele

85.  Benjamin Franklin

86.  George Stephenson

87.  Mick Jagger

88.  Karl Marx

89.  Leif Eriksson

90.  Amelia Johnson

91.  Berry Gordy

92.  Bob Dylan

93.  Spartacus

94.  Montgolfier

95.  Errol Flynn

96.  Christian Barnard

97.  Henry Ford

98.  Alexander Graham Bell

99.  Bob Marley

100.     Machiavelli