Registration for Debate Tournament Closes NOV 1st

If you haven't registered for the Parli / LD Debate Tournament on Nov 13/14, please do so now!

Click on a registration link below, to register students and parents/judges for any of the following tournaments:
FOR EACH TOURNAMENT :

1) Complete Student Registration

2) Complete Parent Judge Registration

3) Pay registration fees by PayPal under the left hand Review and Pay Tab.

4) Please don't forget to Sign-up for Food.

Details and information can be found by clicking on the link below.

https://fallintodebate.homeschooldebate.net

Registration Closes: November 1st

Note: There will be a $10.00 late fee for late registrations. No refunds for cancellations after November 7th.

Speech This Week -- Oct 29, 2015

Hi Everyone!

By now you should have gotten Beckett's Mars Hill speech assignment for club.  We will spend the last part of club time giving individual Mars Hill speeches and parents will give feedback. 

This week we will be covering Extemporaneous speaking. Kyle Ziemnick will share with us key concepts and how to present a winning Extemp speech.  Please bring your notebooks (as always)!

Next week's homework will involve preparing an Extemp speech for practice in club.  Kyle will give that assignment and talk about Extemp Research. 

See you soon,
Kimberly Millhouse

Speech this Week - Oct 22

Topic: Mars Hill!  This week Beckett will be teaching the key ingredients to and leading a brainstorming session for a Mars Hill Speech.  Everyone will get a chance to practice too! 

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I will miss being there this week, but Mrs. Ehrenman will be supervising speech in my place. 

Keep working on your platform speeches and/or your interp scripts.  Set some goals for yourself for each week to make sure that you make the deadlines.  (And it's a good idea to shoot to finish a week before the deadline to allow yourself some wiggle room should you need it!) You should be writing your body paragraphs this week, and continue to do research to fill in gaps and answer questions that arise as you write.  Don't forget to keep track of your sources for your citation page too.  I'll send out some info on writing Intro's and Conclusions soon.

Next week, your homework will be to write a Mars Hill summary (Beckett will explain), and make a speech outline at home for a Mars Hill speech during our next club meeting.

If you have any questions about your speeches, please feel free to email me pkmillhouse@gmail.com.

Have a good week!
Mrs. Millhouse

Register NOW for November Debate Tournament -- Closes Nov 1st

How to Register: Each time registration opens for a tournament you will receive an email letting you know it's time to register.  Registration for tournaments typically open one month before the tournament date and will close two weeks before. 

To register for a tournament see the 'REGISTER FOR TOURNAMENTS' tab on the blog site (or this time see info and link below) and click the applicable registration link to register students AND parents-judges to cover your number of required judge slots.

For EACH tournament you need to:

1) Complete Student Registration

2) Complete Parent Judge Registration

3) Pay registration fees by PayPal under the left hand Review and Pay Tab.

4) Please don't forget to Sign-up for Food.

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DEBATE EVENTS:

TEAM POLICY:

FRIDAY ONLY - November 13th, Annandale VA  

LINCOLN DOUGLAS: 
FRIDAY PM - November 13th, Purcellville VA 

AND SATURDAY - November 14th, Berryville VA

PARLIAMENTARY:

SATURDAY ONLY - November 14, Berryville VA

Details and information can be found by clicking on the link below.

https://fallintodebate.homeschooldebate.net

Registration Closes: November 1st

Note: There will be a $10.00 late fee for late registrations. No refunds for cancellations after November 7th.

Speech This Week - Oct 15

Students:  Please bring with you your developed outline for your platform speech -- bullet points with researched information is fine. Make sure you have your thesis typed out as well.  You don't have to have the outline memorized, but be familiar enough with the information that you can give a smooth oral presentation.  This is the first chance to get feedback for your content and organization before you dig in too deeply, so make the most of this opportunity!

Parents: I will need you there this week from 4:30-5 to take a small group of 2-3 students each to listen to their outline presentations and provide feedback. New parents, please know that you have a lot to offer these students so don't shy away from this chance to support them!

Please bring your notebooks every week!  We will be going over script submission forms and script formatting, as well as talking about the 5 musts of a persuasive speech.  We will also briefly talk about writing intros and conclusions.

Next week Beckett will be teaching the essentials of Mars Hill, going over important things about writing Mars Hill Summaries, and the club will be outlining a MH speech together.  I hope you all will consider doing Mars Hill this year -- it's a fantastic event for life preparation!

See you soon!
Kimberly Millhouse

Speech This Week - Oct 8

Students:
Don't forget your final choice(s) for Interps are due this week!  You will all have a chance to share what piece you decided on.  If you need help figuring out what category to put it in I can help with that.

Next week those of you who are working on writing a Platform Speech will be presenting in small groups your developed outlines with supporting points and research.  By next week you should have a pretty good working thesis and some substantial amount of information to present on your topic based on research you've done these two weeks.  These will be oral presentations.

Parents:
Please don't miss Debbie Snyder and her presentation on how to run a speech tournament this Thursday 4pm!  She has graciously agreed to come teach us, and all of us need to know how to be ready to run our speech tournament scheduled for March.

In addition, I wanted to remind you that you are your students' primary coaches! Please take time to interact with them during the week on how they are progressing with their speech assignments.  1.5 hours of instruction at Vector is not enough for them to get adequate instruction/coaching for them to be successful in this endeavor.  Remember that you can grant them up to a full High School credit for Speech, Speech Writing, English, etc., for their work with Speech this year.

See you soon!
Kimberly Millhouse

Homework for Debate

Debaters!

The Motion you will be prepping for Thursday:

THBT Feminism has failed

Things you want to research/think about:
1) a short history of Feminism
a. Groups and movements
b. Dates of key events
c. Leaders and figureheads
2) What is 1st, 2nd, and 3rd wave feminism?
3) What are the goals it has set out to achieve?
4) Where is it now?

As always, use discretion. Feminism is a hot topic in secular culture today, so your likely to come across some vehement viewpoints. Also - please write your case like we discussed last class. Give me some analysis as to why they have not achieved their goals. If you have any questions, please email me! This Thursday we get a little bit into the technical structure of LD/TP cases.