Thank you for letting me discuss extemporaneous speeches yesterday in club! Extemp is a category that really develops key analytical skills as well as a good awareness of what's going on in the world.
I just want to encourage everyone that's not competing in extemp this year to do two things: 1) Consider competing or 2) Sign up to download articles for our club online boxes. Just by reading the news daily you will have more information and examples to pull from for other speeches and other debate.
We'll be covering extemp again next week, and I just want to remind everyone of the homework. Here's what to to:
1) Find an interesting headline that is relatively important
2) Read the article/s
3) Outline a brief explanation of the event
Bring the outline to club. I'll be having each one of you present for a minute or so, explaining the situation and the story surrounding the headline. Just remember--this isn't a huge speech. You're simply telling a story ;)
Also, I understand that a few of you are unsure how to format/put together a script. I've uploaded a few for you to look at and use as models to help you build those scripts:
Don't forget to keep working on your scripts! The sooner you get it put together, the more time you will have to work on it, and the better your speech will be!
Have an awesome weekend, and see you guys next week!
-Clayton
p.s. - If you are still interested in joining extemp, shoot an email to the Vector extemp account at wekilltreesandlaugh@gmail.com
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