11/24/13

Week Five: Head Thinker Challenge

The church bell is ringing, HouseAuthors! Time for your lively debate… on Death!

Since all of you are competing this week, we’re going to have two rounds to make sure we have a detailed, in-depth discussion on all of your texts! In the first round, you’ll be split into two teams of two where you’ll be tasked with using your partner’s writing to combat the opposing team. Now, there are five of you, so I’m going to grant Mr. Baudelaire a pass for this first round since he deals with Death on a very prominent level. Following that first debate, Mr. Baudelaire will choose one of the members of the winning team to debate in the second round. I will choose a winner from the results of that debate. Best of luck to you all!

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10/29/13

Week One: Head Thinker Challenge – Results

I’m afraid our competing HouseAuthors may have missed the mark on the Ideal they were supposed to debate upon… Social Mobility is a wonderful thing! There’s nothing wrong with having a drive set to working your way up the career ladder, and frankly, I’m a bit insulted that all three HouseAuthors believe that only sadness and death can come from it. If I could, I would refuse to grant one of them the title of Head Thinker and instead decapitate all three of them, but our producers insist upon following the rules.

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